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.

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”

duffman,

Any comment in regards to better personal budgeting gets down votes and the typical “avocado toast” response.

current,

Pointing out casual misogyny/sexism, it’s extremely common on Lemmy (not surprising when the platform mostly only appealed to nerdy young dudes up until recently)

corsicanguppy,

, it’s extremely common on Lemmy

Wait until you count the comma splices and the baseless generalizations!

current, (edited )

Elaborate. You’re saying my comment has a bad generalization? Do you think that Lemmy’s demographic appeal wasn’t primarily towards males with niche usually tech-related interests? Or are you surprised that large parts of said nerdy male demographic (e.g. gamers, techbros, cryptobros, webdevs/software devs) often have sexist/misogynistic views and objectify/sexualize/"other"ify women significantly more than your average leftist, even if they don’t think they do?

If it’s the latter, do you really think that the claim large communities of mostly male gamers, techbros, and the like are often known for harboring much misogynist thinking, so it makes sense for that to carry over to a site which those groups primarily compose is baseless?

Or was your issue something else completely unrelated to the site’s former demographics and the general tendencies of technology-related communities?

Was it me saying that sexist attitudes are extremely common on the site? Because I did base that on numerous observations of users treating women like a different species and casually using very degrading sexist language when speaking about women. And people taking generalizations of women to the extreme, which seeing as you apparently hate generalizations you’d probably love to argue with them for. And people constantly complaining about women’s “privilege” and seemingly blaming them for men’s societal issues. What made me realize that I’m not just getting a bad sample is when I went to look on communities on Lemmy for women & non-binary folks and the literal first threads I saw were saying how they experienced the same things, like these, although they’re tamer than much of the stuff I sometimes see:

Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4

nexussapphire,

I don’t like meta, Twitter looks like a dumpster fire, and reddit started to feel real toxic. Some days on Lemmy I feel like ditching social media all together or braving Twitter sorry x. People are just too extreme at times on Lemmy and a lot of communities are one sided echo chambers.

Pat12,

I got downvoted recently for saying “If you’re friends with someone, wouldn’t you want to know if they’re also friends with someone problematic?” and “I would definitely want to know if my friends were close with people who’d been in prison.”

waterbogan,

I would most definitely want to know if my friends were close with people who’d been in prison! My previous experience with people like that were… not great

Dasus,

Calling out IDF trolls.

Then they amass, obfuscate the thread with a billion replies, manufacturing “outrage” and then mass report the whole thing and bam I’m banned from world news.

Literally didn’t utter a single insult. But since I was adamant and making the IDF troll feel uncomfortable with the evidence that Israel is willfully slaughtering children, I was “being disrespectful” and they banned me.

And Americans get very triggered when you note that there is literally no evidence against the notion that gun control works. They just jump in with shitty NRA perpetuated fallacies. Never a lick of data to support their bullshit. And there’s a mountain of studies proving gun control works. It works as surely as antibiotics.

TechNerdWizard42,

Pretty much anything anti-American or pointing out hypocrisy of the West. And just like Reddit, it gets removed and silenced often. Or just downvoted to oblivion and then name calling.

Lemmy is very much like Reddit in the sense that it is “one of us… One of us… One of us”

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Well yeah… where did you think most of the community came from?

okamiueru,

What part of lemmy gets you downvoted for being Anti-american? I’ve pointed out dumb US shit plenty of times without getting downvoted.

TechNerdWizard42,

All over. Lots of American political questions where when the US does somethings it’s super awesome F-yeah. And then when an “enemy” of the US does the exact same thing, it’s the all about bombing them to oblivion for having dared go against Uncle Sam.

As someone who is very global and been a victim of the US systems before, it’s pretty annoying. But completely expected. Oh well.

weeeeum,

To be honest I see wayyyyyyy more anti-US posts and comments rather than pro-US.

breadsmasher,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

Then name calling

Pot, meet kettle.

You make vague points, refuse to elaborate, insult people, then come and whine and cry in another thread about being downvoted for it?

Doof,

Misreading something. I have dyslexia and there have been times I misread a topic and then got super confused by the respond. Recently there was an article where Kamala Harris said to speed up Marijuana reclassification and my dyslexic brain read that as speed up research for marijuana. So I said that’s not how research works you can’t just speed it up and was so confused by everyone responding to me. Wasn’t til the next day I saw the post and read it properly. So usually my own foolishness.

siipale,

Apparently posting a very old meme that is funny because it’s not funny. Also making a reference to something not many people know about, moaning about learning to use new software being waste of time (I don’t understand what was the issue. Maybe I was off-topic), and having an opinion that Apple is any good.

VanHalbgott,

Ranting about works like the MCU and Zombie Land Saga because I don’t agree with either.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe never ceases to amuse me with how it influences the industry as a whole or how it misrepresents the comics.

Zombie Lan Saga was an anime that subverted zombies in favor of Japanese pop idols that are supposed to be ‘zombies’ but not exactly.

I used to watch those works to begin with and then just stopped because I disagreed with them.

Of course, they’re just my opinions.

At least I’m not criticizing my neighbors, right?

HelixDab2,

I’m broadly leftist, generally anti-authoritarian, and pro-civil rights and liberties.

…Including the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms of their choosing.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Yeah, that’s mostly it for me too

TechNerdWizard42,

It does bother me the US blocks polar bear arms (and the rest of the bear) from coming across the border since the late 2000’s. Needed a special permit before but now they just sieze and destroy.

WeLoveCastingSpellz, (edited )

trashing OS’es that I hate namely Windows and IOS so far. I get that it comes off as elitism and fine with getting downvoted. If I am expressing myself like this, than other users express themselves by downvoting. Nothing wrong here.

laverabe,

ok like 90% of Lemmy uses Linux. We know we all use linux, so when someone comes along and says something like “Windoze sucks, you should install Linux and free the penguin”, 90% of your downvotes are coming from those Linux users who are facepalming at the futility.

It’s like walking into a bar and yelling at the top of your lungs that everyone there should try alcohol, that it’s way better than water.

undergroundoverground, (edited )

Suggesting to stockbros that viewing money as both debt but also, specifically, debt that doesn’t have to be paid back and isn’t owed to anyone or anything anyway (thus making it, by definition, not debt) is, at best, problematic.

Tbf, most of them still think that federal banks create most of the money in circulation and, just to be clear, that is not true. The vast, vast majority of money in circulation is created by private banks when they issue loans.

Edit: sorry, I should add, money is debt. If its not debt, it’s not money. A bank note is a fancy I.O.U.

smeg,

Posting links to the Epic Games store. Not praising it, not telling people to spend money on it, just posting links to their free game giveaways in a community specifically for free game giveaways, compete with a [Epic] tag that they can filter out if they don’t want to see it.

Obviously the downvotes are a minority, but it’s still a bit weird.

SgtAStrawberry,

How do you filter out tags ? I have never really gotten them to work, both here and on Reddit. Ones in a while I have managed to click on them to only show posts with that tag, bit never anything else.

Texas_Hangover,

The truth.

MrPoopbutt,

What truth?

waz,

My truth. Everyone else’s truth is obviously wrong.

Interstellar_1,
@Interstellar_1@pawb.social avatar

Asking for support with questions that others think are really easy to solve. Was a big problem on reddit as well.

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