• hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

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

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      5 months ago

      Make a comment about something other than beans or jeans?

      Believe it or not, straight to jail.

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      5 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