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 :)

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    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.

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      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

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        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.

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

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

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          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.

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          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

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            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.

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              People don’t go directly in a community. They only interact if they find posts in the all feed and interact with individual posts

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                    How is a vote spam?

                    Why isn’t upvoting spam? I have upvoted 10 times as many comments as downvoted, and hundreds of times as many upvotes for posts as comments. Is that spam?

                    Do words mean anything anymore?