• @[email protected]
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    -222 months ago

    Lemmy has gotten a lot less civil recently, people just downvoting for no reason and calling each other shit they wouldn’t dare say to a living person in front of them

    • @[email protected]
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      382 months ago

      I wouldnt call a few downvotes ‘less civil’. Without the edit, the parent comment looked like a weird non sequitur. With the comment there was more context and now it has a lot of upvotes.

      • Capt. Wolf
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        192 months ago

        Totally why I clarified. I realized people probably had no idea what I was talking about. I figured more people would get the reference, but was obviously wrong. Not anyone’s fault there but mine!

        Couldn’t not share it with people though. Such a crazy piece of news…

    • @otp
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      182 months ago

      I mean, downvotes are supposed to be for irrelevant comments. Anyone who missed the reference would easily assume it to be irrelevant.

      • @Jax
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        I think it’s amusing how there are several people ITT that think the way people use upvotes and downvotes changed all because some amorphous entity tied to Lemmy said so.

        They are absolutely “I agree with this” and “I disagree with this” buttons, Hexbear should have definitively proven that to all of you.

        • @otp
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          -12 months ago

          Just because people stick cotton swabs in their ears doesn’t mean that they’re supposed to be used for that.

          • @Jax
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            2 months ago

            Oh, I see, so you must pronounce GIFs as ‘JIFs’ then?

            • @otp
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              -12 months ago

              You really shouldn’t stick cotton swabs inside your ear holes. They’re not even that great at cleaning them out.

              • @Jax
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                02 months ago

                Imagine pronouncing gif as jif

                • @otp
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                  12 months ago

                  It’s literally gift without the t though

                  • @Jax
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                    2 months ago

                    You’re right, and people use q-tips to clean their ears.

                    What the creator intends does not matter, at all.

    • @Deceptichum
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      112 months ago

      Are you new to the internet?

    • KillingTimeItself
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      62 months ago

      the irony of this comment being downvoted is not lost.

      Or maybe it is, idk if i can find it.

    • Echo Dot
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      2 months ago

      people just downvoting for no reason

      Not what they’re for. The downvote is not a “I disagree with this comment” button, It is a measure of how relevant to the discussion a comment is.

      In this case your comment about how everyone is bad and evil and everything is actually not at all relevant to anything in this discussion

      • @Jax
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        12 months ago

        I think it’s amusing how there are several people ITT that think the way people use upvotes and downvotes changed all because some amorphous entity tied to Lemmy said so.

        They are absolutely “I agree with this” and “I disagree with this” buttons, Hexbear should have definitively proven that to all of you.