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This happens on Lemmy as well.
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.
You'd think this would only happen on political subjects. But nope, got downvoted today for commenting on Godzilla buoyancy.
Well, is he buoyant or not?
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.
Imma upvote just to spite you then
Should have been lazy like me and just posted a picture of a duck. Lol
I thought your comments were interesting.
🙏 Bless!
I thought he had really long expandable legs.
Make a comment about something other than beans or jeans?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
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
right to jail
or you're just buried in bullshit copypasta from lemmygrad
This getting downvoted 🤌
The default lemmy client allows hiding all votes though. And it doesn't seem like the comments are sorted by their votes.
Source?
Trust me, bro
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
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
FYI: Not only polish ancestry. The suffix -ski (feminine: -ska), has been restricted to the nobility.
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.