The only "toxicity" is that it seems there are downvote trolls, so almost every post automatically gets a downvote immediately. But you can just ignore if you only have that one or two downvotes. If you can't handle that, you can't be surprised if you get called a snowflake.

[–] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More applicable to comments than posts... Used as "I don't like this" stifles conversation. For example, the comment that we're replying to has been downvoted two to one. It's a legitimate comment that is worthy of conversation but that won't happen because downvoting is being used as a "I don't like this" button. It inevitably creates an echo chamber.

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

People can and will build botnets to artificially upvote their posts, and downvote opponents. It's too easily abused.

[+] hoodatninja@kbin.social -6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see anything in the comment that I see as a personal attack. The person you replied to used "you," but I think that was meant as a general "you" (i.e. other people reading this) rather than you specifically.

I generally agree with you, but only for popular subs. In more niche communities, downvotes seem to do a better job of showing which posts are useful and which aren't, but once you get enough people involved, it seems to devolve into a popularity contest.

I would like to try something a bit different, more akin to what Twitter does. Basically, if a comment gets a ton of comments under it, it should be sorted more highly than one that doesn't. Maybe that way we can eliminate votes entirely, or keep upvotes and downvotes as a form of agree/disagree but reduce their impact on sorting.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While in very formal English "one" is the generic pronoun and "you" is addressed to you personally, in casual English "you" is the generic pronoun with the same meaning as formal written French "on".

So the post above wasn't a personal attack. It used "you" to mean "one".

[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you aren’t going to assume that I have the basic literacy of at least a second grader, then you can see yourself out of this conversation. Please keep the performative snark over on Reddit.

[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was trying to be charitable by assuming you badly misunderstood the comment because English was your second language. The alternatives are that you, in your own words, lack "the basic literacy of at least a second grader" or that you misread it on purpose to give yourself an excuse to pick a fight.

Enjoy the fight that you sacrificed your own dignity to start.