• TheObviousSolution
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    15 hours ago

    That’s the beauty of downvotes: no f-ing context on why people disagree with you or if they even do and are just holding a vendetta from somewhere else, since they aren’t forced to indicate why.

    The account enjoys making a lot of very questionably inconsistent downvotes over their far fewer upvotes and even comments their own suggestion on how to sabotage Flock surveillance cameras in the thread yet doesn’t seem to be an edgelord in their own comments, so who knows. Unlike upvoting, where you presumably agree with a comment, downvoting provides no context as you have no clue why or how much they disagreed with something. Presumably the statement was too simplistic to resonate with their refined tastes, which to avoid the downvote should presumably have been stated with the collection of words they would favor as an argument, if they ever bothered to make it.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      6 hours ago

      I don’t take is so personally. I have someone periodically following me around downvoting everything I write too it appears. It’s pathetic.

    • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch
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      14 hours ago

      I think >50% of my up votes are me swiping right to go back but missing the screen border by a tiny bit, causing the jerboa swipe to vote to kick in.

      so who knows, maybe they just accidentally hit the downvote arrow while scrolling?

      • Lfrith
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        12 hours ago

        Yeah, accidental voting happens to me when I’m using my phone. Kind of inevitable unless someone uses an app where voting is done through pulling left or right as opposed to tapping.

        • thlibos@thelemmy.club
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          3 hours ago

          Do comments around here get disappeared or hidden if they get enough downvotes? If not, then I could give two fucks whether a comment gets 1 downvote or 100.