That’s been my best guess anyway. It’s isn’t consistent enough for me to be sure, but I see the occasional AskLemmy asking why people downvote and some say things like “I don’t like the source” and I’ve had one person kinda scold me before for making them click on a Facebook link and now they have Facebook cooties or whatever.
This post from today has 2 downvotes for example. Neither of my other posts today have any, and they’re all Facebook sourced, but why anyone would downvote this pic is beyond me.
Scrolling back, the cartoons and AI ones, even the ones critical of AI where I point out both blatantly false pics and ones that get passed off as real are the most downvoted things. I understand they like the focus on real, unmodified things, but I don’t get the need to actually downvote the stuff. While it may not be your preference, I don’t think it detracts from the community, which to me is what downvoting is for. If you have a complaint or disagreement, say something. A random downvote is discouraging to a growing place. If someone is lying or passing off fake as real, downvote away so the mod or me can notice, but the way it is, it seems rude to people posting when they may not be knowledgeable of actual owl facts but still want to participate.
That’s been my best guess anyway. It’s isn’t consistent enough for me to be sure, but I see the occasional AskLemmy asking why people downvote and some say things like “I don’t like the source” and I’ve had one person kinda scold me before for making them click on a Facebook link and now they have Facebook cooties or whatever.
This post from today has 2 downvotes for example. Neither of my other posts today have any, and they’re all Facebook sourced, but why anyone would downvote this pic is beyond me.
Scrolling back, the cartoons and AI ones, even the ones critical of AI where I point out both blatantly false pics and ones that get passed off as real are the most downvoted things. I understand they like the focus on real, unmodified things, but I don’t get the need to actually downvote the stuff. While it may not be your preference, I don’t think it detracts from the community, which to me is what downvoting is for. If you have a complaint or disagreement, say something. A random downvote is discouraging to a growing place. If someone is lying or passing off fake as real, downvote away so the mod or me can notice, but the way it is, it seems rude to people posting when they may not be knowledgeable of actual owl facts but still want to participate.