• @hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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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.

      • @kwomp2@sh.itjust.works
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        85 months ago

        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

    • @vga@sopuli.xyz
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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.

    • 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

    • @AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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      25 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

    • @OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
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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.