I'd guess that most of my downvotes are where one person is engaging in personal attacks on someone else.
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I use it for
- Not relevant
- Needs editing for writing mistakes.
Misinformation, propaganda, stuff like that. We can disagree and I'll not downvote you. But if you're outright spewing lies, whether you realize it or not, I'll downvote.
Disagree
I disagree
For any blatantly wrong/nonsensical BORING comment that remains hostile and argumentative (cause if I'm entertained I can just continue posting, lol, I'm as much of a yapper online as I am IRL!). If I find your posts nonsensical but you're chill, I'll exit the conversation politely, often thanking you for your time.
Trolls & bots - then block the user - my feed is remarkably clean
but sometimes just to disagree…
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the instance i use doesn't have one
The instance?
Usually it's a client option, not an instance thing.
Several instances disable downvotes for their users. The one I am on does as well, so that brigading and botted downvotes by queerphobic people are less effective iirc.
In practice I can't downvote things and they also don't get shown to me.
But you can you still downvote on content from other instances? It'd be kinda strange if an instance prevented their users from downvoting elsewhere
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If you're a skater you know there are no rules at the skatepark, except those enforced by those that are at the skatepark...
Same as online communities, there are only ones that get enforced by downvotes.
For posts specifically, more juvenile ass, vagina, dick joke/image type posts.
For comments, I tend not to downvote because I normally don't find a point.
I don't have a downvote button. I disabled seeing downvotes as a whole as they were massively misused and not super helpful.
I downvoted your comment because it's doesn't really add anything to the conversation, it's just aggressive virtue signalling.
I disagree as it's still on topic and to do with the down vote button, but that's your merit, I can't see it ^^'
from my POV it only re-enforces my point that it's misused more than not and not a reliable metric to use, and the option to just not use them as a whole is there.
Did he edit the post? I don't see the aggression, and being virtuous and expressing it isn't something to criticise, lol, it's not like they're some hypocritical politician (not that I saw that here either). But if you were just making a joke, my bad!
Aggressive is modifying "virtue signaling". I guess I could have been more clear by adding an "ly" to make it clear that aggressive was an adverb.
But, honestly in my experience there is ALWAYS someone finding some new way to understand your comment so that they have something to argue with. I was both making a joke AND making a point. Complicated, I know.
And it is something to criticize: OP asked about "X", commenter replied about NOT "X".
Meh, "not X" is still part of the conversation. 🤷
I must downvote once for every 5/10 replies I make. If I really disagree with you, why wouldn't I publicly show how wrong you are? I can't let my peers be misguided when I can avoid it!
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I use it to order a powerbomb.
i like to wipe my butt with it
Perfect comment, adding it to the folder