What gets you downvoted?

What sort of post or comment gets you downvoted the most? Especially if you don’t think it’s bad behavior in the first place, or don’t care. Does not have to be on Lemmy, but we are here… One of the good things about Lemmy IMO is that it’s small enough to see the posts that are unpopular. If you do “Top Day” on most channels, you cash reach the bottom, see what people here don’t like.
As far as comments, attempting to rebut the person who is telling me my post sucks, is what gets me into negative numbers most often. The OP is going to voite it down, of course, and nobody else cares, usually.

Bluetreefrog,

I’m going to lock this one as it’s causing too much conflict.

BonesOfTheMoon,

Just mention you’re vegan in passing on social media (as in ‘this is something I don’t eat anymore as I became vegan’, for example) is a fine way to have some mouthbreather slurping at you about bacon and down voting your posts.

emptybamboo, (edited )

Anytime I mention something vaguely positive about religion. I’m a former religious studies scholar who studied comparative religions. I have two degrees in the subject. I don’t think I’m saying anything controversial: the main thing I usually write is that you cannot usually say that a religion is a monolith - they are pretty complex phenomenon with many variations within them. You can say that Salafis are the totality of Islam. You can’t say that evangelicals are the totality of Christianity. You can’t say 969 in Burma is the totality of Buddhism. You can’t say Hindutva is Hinduism. You can’t say that the Settlers on the West Bank are the totality of Judaism. Religions without any variation or complexity usually die after a generation or two. I don’t just have these arguments online, I am used to have them with students and with friends. But nuance has few safe harbors on the internet…

BonesOfTheMoon,

I’ve simply said that while I don’t consider myself particularly religious, I enjoy my church because of the wonderful friendships, the genuinely welcoming environment to all, and the sense of community it brings me, and all the boring atheists come out of the woodwork to herp at me. Like what do you care that I enjoy something? I’m not inviting you.

RustyShackleford, (edited )
@RustyShackleford@programming.dev avatar

Point out tankies’ abundant similarities to the pigs in Animal Farm.

🇬​🇴​🇴​🇩​ 🇹​🇮​🇲​🇪​🇸​

Head,

No one seems to know or care that “begging the question” means using circular logic and not that something has led to an event where people are begging to ask a question.

An example of properly begging the question could be, “does your mom know you’re gay?” It’s a yes or no question, but you can’t answer it properly if you are straight. That’s begging the question.

Whenever I point this out, I get down voted, which leads to the question: why y’all prefer being wrong?

TheRealKuni,

I’m sure my wife is sick of me saying “raises the question” whenever a video or podcast we’re listening to says that most damnable I-want-to-sound-smart phrase “which begs the question.”

Head,

wHiCh BeGs ThE qUeStIoN

Lucidlethargy,

Just talk about how you genuinely enjoy Microsoft Windows as an operating system.

tyo_ukko,

Well… In that case the downvotes are deserved to be fair.

Loki,

Daring to suggest that MacOS is enjoyable to use is also something that will get a lot of people angry for no reason.

WereCat,

With Chromium browser as well

therealjcdenton,

Read my comment history

rdri, (edited )

Lately, basically saying that hamas did a big mistake and Gaza would be in a better situation now if they (hamas) were smarter human beings.

demonhunt, (edited )

Easy one. Communism is the future of mankind, prove me wrong

Cryophilia,

You’d go straight to the top of several communities

SonnyVabitch,

In the seventies and eighties the communist leaders of Hungary, when talking about the realities of the time introduced some terms to explain the difference of the real world from the ideals.

“Socialism that exists”
“Socialism that works”

The jokes immediately started coming, pointing out that the socialism that exists does not work, while the socialism that works does not exist.

_number8_,

why does it seem like basically all the past communist leaders were also evil and cruel? can’t we get some chill ones?

Urist,
@Urist@lemmy.ml avatar

Because anyone trying anything remotely close to communism becomes a big target for bourgeouisie capitalist interests. But hey, it is much better to be a chill communist who gets strung up in the streets by fascists while accomplishing nothing, am I right?

YeetPics, (edited )
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

When tankies are on about nuking the west or genociding “white libruls” they tend to dogpile you for calling them fascist pigfuckers.

Can’t tell if they like the attention or not because they always share a pic of a pig shitting on its own balls.

Is it an initiation right? a call to arms? is it a sexual advance?! We may never know.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

It’s like a secret handshake; If you accept and fuck the pig, they know you’re one of them.

corsicanguppy,

I want people to represent themselves really well, through their writing. I forget to consider their feels.

spittingimage,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

Most recently? Pointing out that the Soviet Union were serious contenders in the space race.

Sauvandu60,

Posting pro-continuation of human existence when everybody else celebrating human extinction.

MigratingtoLemmy,

Taking a dump on Systemd apparently

corsicanguppy,

It embarrasses the “ooh, shiny” crowd with your talk of standards and wunderkinder egos.

Mastengwe,

Speaking out against communism/tankie propaganda.

ikidd,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I do that every time; usually the ml’s hit the downvote for a while until the sane people show up.

IDGAF, I despise these hypocrites. Downvote away, their boos don’t bother me, I’ve seen what makes them cheer.

Mastengwe,

Well said!

TwoBeeSan,

Love that phrase “seen what makes them cheer”

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