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Either nuance in a topic people are very black and white about or not being able to figure out how people can read things as the opposite of what I wrote.

Only happened a couple of times, no regrets.

Asking why you're getting downvoted is usually the easiest way to get downvotes.

But I often wish I would get a comment about downvotes. It's easy enough to see why I'm getting downvoted when I post stupid shit, but sometimes I feel like even the most uncontroversial post or comment will get at least one downvote. I want to know when I'm wrong, so I can learn!

Like, the other day there was a post getting downvoted to oblivion and nobody told OP anything. I commented my reason and OP actually seemed to be learning from that, edited the post and the downvotes stopped accumulating.

Anything slightly "feminist". You know, like pointing out that women do the majority of unpaid care work. Or saying it's not nice to objectify women. Or sometimes mentioning the word women will do it.

Anything that's true but people don't like.

Wrong politics. Too dry of satire. Too absurd of memes. Pictures of Charles III.

EDIT: Oh, and cigar posts. Some small handful of shit pieces downvote me everytime I post in the Cigar/Tobacco community.

When I reply to a comment with a laugh or what have you. I like them too know I laughed but since I'm not adding to the conversation I guess I'm getting voted down. I do it anyway.

Posting for the sake of intelligent discussion; Philosophy.

Nobody understands the term "Devils Advocate" on lemmy. It's just "TROLL". I can't possibly discuss a viewpoint online, that I don't personally believe without instantly being labeled a troll.

I don't brain like most people brain. I like to explore and discover the aspect of things which made us land on those decisions or opinions. Turns out, most people don't like that.

Anything mentioning furry. Which is a shame, because I hoped the internet had outgrown such immaturity.

Although, looking through my history, apparently anything that criticizes Windows or AI, which is odd considering the demographics here.

Saying something positive about the United States, or something negative about CCP.

What sort of post or comment gets you downvoted the most?

Whenever I say that America is a continent instead of a country, and similar things.

AI isn't stealing your art. Text to image stable diffusion literally can't output a copy of your work.

And if you post your art online for free, you have no expectation of anyone not using your work to the extent that fair use allows. AI looking at your work for training is the same as a human looking at your work for inspiration.

Can I be honest? Religion. Anything related to it, somehow will get someone downvote me. Even if I just mention "God" or something. I get that I should "separate the church from the state" or I should be secular here or whatevs, and I respect that. It's not like every time I mention I force it down to everyone's throat!

Tbh I wanted to make a post that greet everyone on Lemmy that are doing Ramadhan fasting at first, but now I don't even feel like doing that. There's no point of posting it, I guess, if it got downvoted and no one wants to see it.

I guess this means that Lemmy isn't much different from Reddit...

Mentioning downvotes. Or upvotes. The first rule of vote club is...

Defending Imperial units to people who prefer metric.

Opinions. People seem to hate opinions, whether they're provided with an explanation or not. Facts are also downvoted on a regular base.

Based on what I seen on Lemmy. Being an Conservative. Don't believe me. Go to a Conservative community and look at all the downvoted bombed posts.

EDIT "Based on what I seen on Lemmy". I'm talking about World and .ml.

Saying something centrist instead of left-wing. I feel like I'm left of center in most places, but right of center here. Stuff like "we should try to just have a well regulated capitalist system instead of going full on socialist, because as bad as capitalism is, socialism has been shown to be worse," would get me downvoted into oblivion.

The truth man! *nails self to cross

Anything about issues men have.

According to Lemmy unless you are trans or gay no man has ever had any issue and it's absolutely never the fault of women. But now you bring up that issue let me downvote and tell you about the issues women have from men.

Links to reddit

When I talk about driving my Tesla, while playing on my iPhone, and chugging Starbucks out of my custom Stanley. With my Windows laptop on the passenger side.

Being right 😂

Slagging China, pointing out hydrogen vehicles are a stupid idea, lots of snide responses

I tend to come off as an absolute asshole in all debates and arguments even when I am agreeing with people or praising them regardless of if I am right/wrong or winning/losing because I'm probably mildly on the spectrum.

Any truth that upsets the hivemind.

I have no idea because I use browser tools to hide the element that shows vote scores. If people don't like what I have to say and want me to know about it they can take the time to write a response.