I seriously don’t understand some people’s logic downvoting for no reason on a site where votes are public.
I was just scrolling and haven’t followed the thread so please be aware that I’m responding in isolation, out of context to whatever situation you’re referring to.
Sometimes I’ll disagree with a part or most of a comment that someone made, however I’ll also recognize that my opinion on it doesn’t align with what the echo chamber thinks. Perhaps I’ll just respond anyway, but often I don’t want to deal with the expected dogpile and personal comments which I find emotionally taxing, so I’ll just downvote instead. In those cases it might appear I’m downvoting for no reason, but there are definitely reasons.
I’m not complaining about downvotes in general. I dislike people who downvote people who mention downvoting (like the two I call out in the above comment) and people who downvote every comment in a thread just because their own comment was downvoted (like bigtyme who i’ve noticed a bunch of times downvoting entire threads just because someone downvoted him).
Neither of those things are conducive to a social web with a small population.
It is imo much more disturbing to see people publicly call out their downvoters and provoke a witch hunt. If any, that behaviour is antisocial and most definitely downvote-worthy.
I downvote people I disagree with and upvote people I agree with. I don’t even check if people downvote me because I don’t give a shit. My comment has 13 upvotes, I don’t even give a shit to check the ratio because I’m just going to assume only 13 people read the comment and bothered to upvote it.
You’re acting like a child. Drawing a false conclusion, stalking me apparently, and whining about something that will be forgotten in a day. I’ve also upvoted people, but I guess you’re a bad stalker. FYI I downvoted your little baby rant.
Ah okay that makes sense then. I’d seen some comments from other people on here about not downvoting as a dislike button, and I thought that’s what you were saying as well, but it wasn’t.
I was just scrolling and haven’t followed the thread so please be aware that I’m responding in isolation, out of context to whatever situation you’re referring to.
Sometimes I’ll disagree with a part or most of a comment that someone made, however I’ll also recognize that my opinion on it doesn’t align with what the echo chamber thinks. Perhaps I’ll just respond anyway, but often I don’t want to deal with the expected dogpile and personal comments which I find emotionally taxing, so I’ll just downvote instead. In those cases it might appear I’m downvoting for no reason, but there are definitely reasons.
I’m not complaining about downvotes in general. I dislike people who downvote people who mention downvoting (like the two I call out in the above comment) and people who downvote every comment in a thread just because their own comment was downvoted (like bigtyme who i’ve noticed a bunch of times downvoting entire threads just because someone downvoted him).
Neither of those things are conducive to a social web with a small population.
It is imo much more disturbing to see people publicly call out their downvoters and provoke a witch hunt. If any, that behaviour is antisocial and most definitely downvote-worthy.
I downvote people I disagree with and upvote people I agree with. I don’t even check if people downvote me because I don’t give a shit. My comment has 13 upvotes, I don’t even give a shit to check the ratio because I’m just going to assume only 13 people read the comment and bothered to upvote it.
You’re acting like a child. Drawing a false conclusion, stalking me apparently, and whining about something that will be forgotten in a day. I’ve also upvoted people, but I guess you’re a bad stalker. FYI I downvoted your little baby rant.
Fucking pathetic.
Ah okay that makes sense then. I’d seen some comments from other people on here about not downvoting as a dislike button, and I thought that’s what you were saying as well, but it wasn’t.