• @hydrospanner
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      Better yet: on Lemmy it doesn’t matter if you’re right or wrong, support yourself with facts or have someone else do it, admit mistake or not…if what you post isn’t in alignment with the overall masses, it’s jail downvotes.

      • Farid
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        You’d think this would only happen on political subjects. But nope, got downvoted today for commenting on Godzilla buoyancy.

          • Farid
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            Apparently. But the discussion was about how he achieves his buoyancy. But if you’d like to downvote my responses, feel free to pick any comment from my recent history.

          • @kelargo
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            I thought he had really long expandable legs.

      • @[email protected]
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        203 months ago

        Make a comment about something other than beans or jeans?

        Believe it or not, straight to jail.

      • @[email protected]
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        Thats something entirely different though. Using votes to show disagreement/agreement makes sense as a tool of democratic communication. This goes for comments that contain statements.

        OP describes a “jail” type of usage, where there is nothing to disagree but people downvote amyways (to feel superior maybe), wich sucks cause it reads like hate

      • THCDenton
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        This getting downvoted 🤌

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      The default lemmy client allows hiding all votes though. And it doesn’t seem like the comments are sorted by their votes.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      It does for sure, but not as often in my experience. Reddit is just entirely full of teenagers now that think the downvote button is a dislike button

    • PopShark
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      It happened to me when I mistakenly said that people with “ski” endings to their surname are Jewish Poles when it in fact apparently only means they have Polish ancestry and nothing about their religion lol

      • @[email protected]OP
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        13 months ago

        FYI: Not only polish ancestry. The suffix -ski (feminine: -ska), has been restricted to the nobility.

    • @[email protected]
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      And on any other platform with similar demographics that has a downvote option. Luckily magical internet points don’t matter and the worst that can happen is your comment gets hidden.