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gopher
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Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature 3
#26886286 - 08/18/20 08:39 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I absolutely hate it when I get down voted and no one comments on a post, I dont think it benefits anyone, if they comment I will either change my mind and agree with them or I will double down and stick by what I said, I think the discussion is very important, when ever I down vote someone I will leave a comment why I down voted them
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: gopher] 9
#26886292 - 08/18/20 08:43 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I hereby downvote this thread

Just kidding gopher I dig it
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: Niffla] 1
#26886338 - 08/18/20 09:07 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I agree that it can be pretty lame, but it only bothered me when I had a new account and couldn't post some places due to it. Since that is no longer an issue so I just ignore downvotes.
Someone will always hate on you and it just means they are insecure or whatever and their life sucks or that they are jealous of you so just take it as a compliment. The only time I downvote someone is if they are giving advice that is dangerous/unsafe or can lead someone to waste their $ by giving incorrect info (I am not gonna downvote someone advocating for a product I don't like if they are honest, but if they say buying a Corolla is as good as a Cadillac I will downvote).
Anyways, don't worry about people downvoting you. You can farm enough karma by posting to get 100s or 1000s of karma quickly to the point that it doesn't even matter if you get downvoted.
Edited by MrTinAZ (08/18/20 09:08 AM)
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: Niffla] 1
#26886341 - 08/18/20 09:09 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I no poast on reddit.
However if there is an option to upvote in this life, I feel it should be balanced by an option to downvote.
In theory, at least.
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gopher
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26886348 - 08/18/20 09:18 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Jokeshopbeard said: I no poast on reddit.
However if there is an option to upvote in this life, I feel it should be balanced by an option to downvote.
In theory, at least.
I dont mind a downvote if its accompanied by a comment, but downvoting with no one saying why they thought my comment was bad is lame
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MrTinAZ
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: gopher]
#26886396 - 08/18/20 10:03 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I agree, but a good portion of people in the world are completely lame, and others could be cool or may become cool once their mind is opened but they are too stuck in the rat race to be cool. There are just a lot of people who are born lame and there are even more that become cogs in the system for fear that if they don't they will be a poor washout. In Sparta, one's status as a warrior was valued and in Athens philosophers and artists were revered but we have created a culture in which money is valued above all else. So if you are a rich philosopher people might respect you but if you are a poor one they won't respect you until you are dead and people discover your work much later.
I know this is a bit of a tangent, but my point is that people try to fit in and also like to put down others in order to feel better about themself (I can give many examples, different generations of American Immigrants comes to mind, but I don't wanna go on more tangents).
If you can see how lame it is that people would rather put someone else down (even if it is just on Reddit) without explanation than at least you are one of the people who aren't a mindless drone trying to appease others and put others down to elevate status.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: gopher]
#26886639 - 08/18/20 12:25 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Downvotes are usually meaningless in the context of an individual thread. However, I like the concept of "karma."
If you get consistently and repeatedly downvoted, it speaks to your contributions (or lack thereof) to a message board. I think it would be a great shroomery feature.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: gopher]
#26886750 - 08/18/20 01:11 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Downvotes were originally intended to be used for comments that don't add to a discussion and have since become a "disagree button"
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: gopher]
#26886759 - 08/18/20 01:16 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Since that feature is there they should make it where a person MUST give a reason to downvote.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26886789 - 08/18/20 01:35 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Reddit is mostly a huge circlejerk anyways, which isn't news to anyone. so it's just what happens. Who gives a fuck about downvotes. I used to post and read on reddit quite a lot but nowadays I never post there and never even browse it unless I am really bored and procrastinating like at work... There are great subreddits there though. But anything on the frontpage is just...
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: gopher]
#26886814 - 08/18/20 01:45 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
gopher said: I dont mind a downvote if its accompanied by a comment, but downvoting with no one saying why they thought my comment was bad is lame
Learn to accept disappointment.
Life is full of it.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: 1234go]
#26886819 - 08/18/20 01:47 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
1234go said:
Quote:
gopher said: I dont mind a downvote if its accompanied by a comment, but downvoting with no one saying why they thought my comment was bad is lame
Learn to accept disappointment.
Life is full of it.
This is so true.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26886827 - 08/18/20 01:52 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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The one about the right to be offended or something is accurate as well
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MrTinAZ
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: InnerWisdom]
#26887618 - 08/19/20 12:53 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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yup...some of those are hilarious, and some of those I'm like hmmm ya I do that. I mean yeah I DO check voicemails but only if I am applying for jobs or have some reason to do it. Otherwise once every 3-8 weeks is adequate right?
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: MrTinAZ] 1
#26887640 - 08/19/20 01:56 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I just dislike how it's petty.
Also people don't need more reason to think their immediate impulsive ADD opinions matter.
It fuels hate trains and the opposite upvoting encourages snappy one liners that can be consumed in a few seconds while scrolling past. It stifles conversation and makes idiots feel smart when someone they disagree with gets downvoted to oblivion or their copypasta comment nabs them a thousand karma.
Basically the internet is full of children and I hate them and I like my adult corners.
Reddit is a media platform mostly. It's like a personalized news and content source. Conversation and connecting with others takes a backseat to the consumption of media - memes, news, and popular shit someone said on the internet which basically is a part of news now.
That's all okay. I just don't like how some subs fancy themselves intellectual conversationalists but subscribe to the same conversation and diversity killers the rest of the site does.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#26887642 - 08/19/20 01:59 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Also ratings rape is against the rules here. You have basically nothing protecting you on reddit.
I've seen people get 100 downvotes on every post in every sub the moment they post. It's funny in a sad way.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: gopher]
#26887677 - 08/19/20 03:14 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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In theory it's not a bad feature, but in reality 99% of the time it's total shit. I thought that other websites should have a downvote feature until I used reddit, and then I realized what a mistake downvoting is. It almost never gets used like how you'd want it to be used. Youtube is another good example where downvoting is completely worthless. It's almost always used for completely petty bullshit that contributes nothing (or just to troll) and never for anything actually good.
Anyway, I don't use reddit anymore. Can't stand it. And part of what makes reddit so bad is the downvote feature unfortunately. I guess people are just too immature to use a feature like that correctly.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: nooneman]
#26887681 - 08/19/20 03:21 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ythan has so far resisted downvoting "because it would lead to feature abuse" and I must say I agree.
If you are against something you should have the balls (testicles or ovaries) to say it in person.
If you could downvote there would be people who would dowvote every post of a poster just to spite them, regardless of what the post said.
Some people in our lovely community are just against each other in every guise, shape or form.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: Asante]
#26887697 - 08/19/20 04:02 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, absolutely. Most of its use ends up being abuse. People will downvote just to piss someone off, or to troll them, or to try to get a reaction, or because it's funny, or because they're angry, or just because they don't like something or someone. I've seen so many more examples of it being abused than of it being used properly.
Like, I've seen a ton of instances where someone asks for recommendations or thoughts/opinions on something, and a perfectly reasonable recommendation gets downvoted into the floor purely because it's funny or popular to do so, or because people don't like the thing being recommended (or the poster) even if it's perfectly reasonable and just a matter of subjective taste, or just because something is unpopular or less popular than something else. Sometimes I've seen the correct answer to a question get downvoted into the floor purely because it is the correct answer. I've seen people getting downvoted in one forum just because of something else they said totally unrelated in a different forum, all kinds of fucked up shit.
When you can downvote stuff, it becomes a giant popularity contest where the most popular opinions win, and the unpopular opinions are silenced. Sometimes unpopular opinions are right, or even just an important contribution to the discussion more broadly.
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Re: Down Voting is a pretty shitty reddit feature [Re: nooneman]
#26887867 - 08/19/20 07:34 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I did LOVE that reddit RC forum that rated vendors etc...that was awesome!
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