I’m amazed how worked up people get about down votes.
I have had people literally tell me that I am wrong and bad and cite the downvotes as evidence.
I recently had a post locked. The moderator cited “he got reports”, which are basically secret downvotes.
What have you been saying that pisses people off so much?
A lot of it. I don’t go in for smalltalk and I come here to probe the wall of the bubble more or less exclusively. I like scifi ideas.
Some tell me that I’m just trying to sound smart. Some seem to be triggered. Some seem to get upset by even considering the subject. Sum that up and there’s like 1% left to talk to.
I’ve been aggressively blocking recently, pruning the mass down into something better. Seems to be working.
Well, don’t be surprised if people have a bad response to someone being rude/blunt/argumentative.
If you want to change minds you’re going to need to work on social skills, too.
Based on what you said your goal is I think you’re going to need to grow a thicker skin if you don’t plan on changing your approach, or you’ll need to work on your presentation and conversation skills if you want a more positive reaction from people.
Rude, blunt and argumentative, eh? And change minds? I think we have different kinds of conversations.
No, I just want a nice conversation.
I find aggressive pruning makes the bush bloom better.
A gentleman doesn’t care about downvotes.
My baseline is to upvote everyone who replies to me, cause it’s neat that you’re here, contributing to the fediverse.
I only downvote trolls and bad faith actors.I feel like it’s okay to downvote abusive or dishonest posts.
What if someone judtify settler colonialism and genocide
Well if it’s a coherent argument then we argue.
This would probably do better in Unpopular Opinions
I got banned from that for being too unpopular.
What got you banned specifically? Just curious
Not being able to distinguish between a shower thought and an unpopular opinion (no kidding). And doubling down by insulting the mods.
What, in your opinion, is the greater crime, removing a post or insulting a mod?
So I figured I’d just look it up in my history and couldn’t find it. Then I remembered that when they remove your post from their community they also remove it from your history. That is disturbing. I mean they’re literally editing history.
Nope it ain’t in the modlog either.
The moderators here have a special kind of attitude.
I don’t even remember.
one should rarely downvote but be prepared to downvote. Downvoting a curtesy you do for the community for things that are not just something against your opinion but is stuff no one wants to see. Rude, aggressive, mean swearing or such.
Consider the consistently rude, aggressive and dumb. Would you be better off just blocking them?
Block enough and it could be pretty sweet. Like, early 2000s IRC sweet.
