They were getting downvoted to oblivion.
Downvotes are a fucking curse. They were never meant for disagreement. They’ve just turned into low-effort echo-chamber creators.
I rarely downvote. If I disagree with someone that means no up vote most times. Downvote should be limited to spam, harmful or completely irrelevant.
I’ve been downvoted to oblivion before just because I don’t agree with the hive mind. That to me is scary and people should be concerned that’s even a thing.
I prefer to have downvotes because they give you a better picture than, say, upvotes only.
Comments in an upvote-only system will still float to the top. And now we don’t know how many people disagreed (HA!) with them.
Yup. The amount of times I saw a comment that was downvoted to oblivion for containing a shred of nuance and that required the most minute sliver of time’s worth of critical thinking getting downvoted unjustly boggles the brain. Downvotes are literally contagious for probably 50%-60% of users. When a few downvoted roll in to something slightly nuanced, the already small likelihood that people could engage with the nuance drops to absolute zero and the downvotes just keep piling up. Says quite a lot.
Precisely. I abhor the phrase, but it’s demonstrably a case of herd mentality.
poopkins@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ironically, I’ve been downvoted for saying this in response to somebody sympathizing with my previous downvoted comment that was expanding in support of somebody’s highly upvoted comment with some background.
I think the general sentiment on Lemmy is that any comment reply must surely be in disagreement and receives an automatic downvote. Mostly I visit the comments for discourse and upvote interesting threads of conversation.
In my opinion, really there should be no downvote button.
max@feddit.nl 9 months ago
It really is just Reddit 2.0 here sometimes…
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Always has been.
Scolding7300@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This
grayman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This
Haha@lemmy.world 9 months ago
As soon as i disagree with someone i get downvoted. Lemmy or anywhere else. Most are children so whatever
poopkins@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You replied to me, so you’re disagreeing with me, right? Downvoted.
poopkins@lemmy.world 9 months ago
/s, in case that wasn’t abundantly clear
grayman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Monkey brains… You are describing an engagement vote, but what people are mashing is “like” and “dislike” at best but usually “agree” and “disagree”. So yeah… Monkey brains prefer “agree” and “disagree”.