https://feddit.org/post/13994826/7165181

Everything I downvoted was because I genuinely do not think it’s good. Like meat is not going to cure cancer.

I actually really like eating meat I just try to life a life that gives others room to enjoy this earth too without mutually destroying it.

Please tell me how I am the asshole :)

  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    205·
    4 days ago

    YDI

    You went to a community you disagree with and downvoted almost everything that was there. Sounds like probable trolling to me.

    • daw@feddit.orgOP
      86·
      4 days ago

      I went to the community because a post from it crossed my hot posts page. I did disagree with the post and subsequently checked out the community.

      • remon@ani.social
        122·
        4 days ago

        But then you proceed to downvote every post in the community. That’s where you went wrong. You should have realised that you’ll likley disagree with almost anything posted there and should have just blocked it.

        • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          41·
          4 days ago

          You should have realised that you’ll likley disagree with almost anything posted there and should have just blocked it.

          And I wish more Lemmy people understood this!

          • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
            34·
            3 days ago

            Surely we need to build more communities insulated from disagreement. The whole point of lemmy is to circle jerk each other right?

            “OMG YOU AGREE WITH ME? OH WOW YOU AGREE WITH ME TOO?! FUCK IT FEELS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!”

            Pathetic.

            • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
              51·
              3 days ago

              Disagreement would require some level of discourse, a proposition supported by data and argument - Just driving around the city and throwing eggs on everybody isn’t much of a disagreement

              • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
                11·
                3 days ago

                None of that is required for a disagreement. I disagree that you should be running communities, but after seeing the communities you do run I really don’t think it will matter much either way.

            • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              62·
              3 days ago

              Oh I forgot, we’re supposed to allow people to be asshole trolls just so they feel better about their own worthless, meaningless, sexless lives.

            • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              31·
              3 days ago

              Lemmy is already like this, even more so than Reddit. The fact that people come here because they think Reddit is right-wing is hilarious to me. Reddit is one of most leftist places online. And extreme about it. The fact that people come here because they think Reddit is “right-leaning” shows you just how insulated people want to be by coming here.

              Most people stay here because they want more extreme insulation. The few that come here thinking it’s more open and less censorship find out real quick, that’s not true. I saw a post in a casual non-political community about a guy talking about taking a walk and enjoying the weather.

              Comments immediately combusted into posters talking about Trump and Musk. LMAO

    • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
      15·
      3 days ago

      The community in question is entirely dedicated to dangerous medical misinformation, they deserve worse than downvotes

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      711·
      4 days ago

      They down voted misinformation. Isn’t that the ‘correct’ way to use the down vote button?

      Edit: The fact that someone down voted this comment is hysterical.

      • rumimevlevi@lemmings.world
        114·
        4 days ago

        There is no point to downvote very old poss. If you to a profile and downvote dozens of posts it’s spam and most admin will not allowed

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          59·
          4 days ago

          If it is all misinformation and I want to reduce its visibility, why does volume of down votes matter?

          I mean the whole idea of ‘down voting too much’ is that the down votes, which are basically instant after reading a post or comment, are done in a short period of time. If someone takes a few minutes to browse a community to see if maybe a couple of the terrible posts are outliers and vote as they go, is that really any different than down voting them when they are noticed coming through a feed organically?

          Note that nobody cares about the frequency of up votes.

          • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
            21·
            3 days ago

            If it is all misinformation and I want to reduce its visibility

            You could block it. That would reduce your visibility to it completely.

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            71·
            4 days ago

            it is all misinformation

            If you think it’s all misinformation but you don’t block the community (or even post your correct information), at some point you are just wasting your time.

          • rumimevlevi@lemmings.world
            64·
            4 days ago

            People don’t scroll more than 1 hour a feed. That mean there is no point of downvoting a 9 hours old post that did not reach any top or active posts

            • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
              25·
              4 days ago

              If there is no point because it won’t be seen then there would be no negative impact from the downvotes, and punishing someone for downvoting ‘old’ misinformation would be silly.

              I downvote misinformation because if someone comes across the community later they are going to see those old posts too. Same reason for downvoting a 5 minute old post as it would for a 5 day old post, misinformation is misinformation.