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[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Better yet: on Lemmy it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, support yourself with facts or have someone else do it, admit mistake or not...if what you post isn't in alignment with the overall masses, it's ~~jail~~ downvotes.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You'd think this would only happen on political subjects. But nope, got downvoted today for commenting on Godzilla buoyancy.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Apparently. But the discussion was about how he achieves his buoyancy. But if you'd like to downvote my responses, feel free to pick any comment from my recent history.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Imma upvote just to spite you then

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Should have been lazy like me and just posted a picture of a duck. Lol

I thought your comments were interesting.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago
[–] kelargo@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I thought he had really long expandable legs.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago

Make a comment about something other than beans or jeans?

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

[–] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

Thats something entirely different though. Using votes to show disagreement/agreement makes sense as a tool of democratic communication. This goes for comments that contain statements.

OP describes a "jail" type of usage, where there is nothing to disagree but people downvote amyways (to feel superior maybe), wich sucks cause it reads like hate