A few days ago I downvoted someone’s comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I’ve ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I’m an “obvious” troll account that “apparently just exist to downvote other people”. I assure you I’m no troll account, and ironically don’t really downvote all that often.
I know the topic of public downvotes has been discussed before, but I never used to care either way. Now I’m kinda leaning in the “I don’t like it” side. Honestly, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel a little offended, maybe even attacked. Also, there goes all my imaginary internet points. Lol
Has anyone else had something like this happen to them, or am I just unlucky?
stop caring about votes like they mean anything.
I don’t. That’s why I called them imaginary internet points. Lol. My point was about the fact that you can see who downvotes you.
@billothekid2 this exchange raises another point. You and @snooggums downvoting each other here seem to be engaging in “downvote-to-disagree” with each other.
I don’t see nearly as much of this on kbin as I do on, say, lemmy.world and I’m sure it’s because of our more transparent voting system.
I’m personally not a fan because I think it’s vaguely hostile and discourages open discussion.
FWIW, I usually downvote if the person is a dick. Often I also disagree with them, but not always. If you are dragging the conversation down (in some way other than having an unpopular opinion) you get a downvote.
Fair enough. I think my dick threshold is pretty high, they have to be spamming or griefing or something like that.
Same, generally speaking when I’m writing a comment in order to disagree with someone I want that other person’s comment to be more visible to other readers. That way they can read it, see my response, and realize how wrong the original comment was and how right I am. :) I save my downvotes for comments that are so wrong they’re not worth a response.
I’ll even sometimes downvote a comment, ponder for a moment, and then remove my downvote and write a response instead.
The way I see it, downvotes = “I wish this comment didn’t exist” and doing it to punish someone for having a discussion with us is weird, since social media is all about discussions, and exchanging disagreeing points of view is interesting.
I am downvoting because complaining about downvotes while saying they don’t matter is hypocritical and not a discussion made in good faith. Just wanted to see if they voted in response, showing their hypocrisy.
If you didn’t care you wouldn’t have posted.
If he didn’t care he wouldn’t have downvoted you just now either
That’s hilarious. Another upside