It’s that momentum. Once you start going negative, you get pile driven even lower
Only if you are really stupid or controversial. In a popular thread you can turn the votes around with subsequent posts or a clarifying edit.
I once asked a question, everyone thought I made a bad joke, down voted, I edited it to include that it was genuine curiosity, got down voted even harder and called stupid, my noddle still doesn’t compute the situation.
Ask the question again or link it and I’ll answer it
But also downvote it? For posterity.
Sometimes you start with the person you replied to down voting you because they think you disagreed with them, then others read your comment and up vote it
A negative downvote is an upvote :v
Reminds me of a poster that said “!False is funny, because it is true”
That one poster brave enough to speak and defend you and single handedly turns the tide.
Or even better, when they call out the loonies too and go down with you like the violin Titanic scene
We are always one negative vote away from oblivion
Movie is Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Wouldn’t one downvote plus one upvote be 1 again
Sure.
The meme’s about being at -1 though.
I think you automatically upvote your own posts/replies
I completely forgot Dave Chappelle is in that movie until recently.
Ahchoo?
Bless you
A Jew, in England!?
Who cares about down votes? I’d care if I didn’t express my view properly, but sometimes people just disagree
minecraft both of them
Hide votes unless you’re keen on worrying about stupid manipulative internet points
Who cares what intermet strangers think about your comments?
hehe minus one 😈
Why are you downvoting it??
I brought you back to zero. Now hug me… please :(
I returned it to zero after someone moved it off
I can see what you are doing. Come here my little (or big, doesn’t matter) internet person with a sense of humor
Hexbear avoids this issue by simply disabling downvotes. Disagree with someone? Explain yourself.
Other instances: downvote into oblivion. No notifications involved, you can just ignore it and move on.
Hexbear: no downvotes possible. You get tons of comments that are basically generic memes and could as well be downvotes without any loss of information.
You’ve clearly never posted on Hexbear because we often have lengthy discussions specifically because you can’t just downvote and move on.
You’ll probably get to experience that now in fact as all the Hexbears who see this go “uh that’s wrong” and tell you rather than downvote you. It’s a great community building tool.
Anyway
You think I would write the comment I did without having made the experience? I’m banned from that community and I’m not even sad to be excluded from such a toxic realm
Toxic is when you post your opinion in a discussion forum, apparently.
Toxic is what I encountered. It wasn’t just different opinions. It was what people called me and how and what they commented. I’m glad that didn’t happen to you yet but don’t pretend you know what happened to me.
What did folks call you? Why did they?
They called me a liberal for pointing to “Homage to Catalonia”, which they called liberal propaganda even though I explained that in the book Orwell called out the Stalinists for siding with the liberals, indirectly against the anarchosyndicalists and thereby helping the fascists to power.
Sure, you can have different readings of historical events, but you can also spam people with 1984 memes and hate on an author without knowing shit about him. Reminds me of the Hakim video about Orwell where he claims that he never spoke about Franco even though Homage to Catalonia exists and that’s the book about his politicization and he cites it as most influential and most important. Except that Hakim didn’t react to someone who literally explained all that. Tbf some of the explaining was in later removed comments so some of the commenters didn’t see them.
This is pretty disingenuous. Most of those comments don’t pour in until after someone ignores a well sourced informative critique, then people selectively ignore said effort posts and selectively reply to people just dunking on them for refusing to read.
This presumes that all people are informed. New people, by definition, are not that. Arguably their fault for (checks notes) getting on a social media site then?
I am saying that it is easy for a day-1 noob to feel “dunked on” based on this absolute rush of feedback, especially for e.g. someone on the wider Fediverse who was not even aware that hexbear was that way, so especially they had no chance to consent to that - no pop-up messages appeared, nothing really unless you hunt around dig and also scroll down to see it, underneath the community, they just saw a post and replied as normal but then WHABOOSH!
Also you did not explain how the person you were responding to was not merely “wrong” but rose to be fully “disingenuous”. Sadly this is something I notice often with hexbear - the culture seems to value “fights”, which ngl could be helpful if the goal were to use socratic discourse to achieve some end goal like Truth and/or Compassion, but far more often it looks to me, from the outside, like people who just enjoy fighting/dunking for its own sake.
You are free - and I will fight to the death for your rights to do precisely this - to do as you please, as it pertains to yourself, but when it crosses over to affect other people, then different rules come into play. Specifically, if people from hexbear will not control themselves, then that leaves others to have to do it for them - e.g. warn people what to expect from hexbear users. i.e., it is not “disingenuous” to say that hexbear users seem to be spoiling for a fight, if that is literally what happens.
Some of your critique is valid and warranted but the person I was referring to implied that I was being contrarian which is not at all what I was doing.
I was simply expanding on why this sort of enshitification occurs.
“least x y” is typically used sarcastically/ironically and if that was not the case and they misunderstood the joke they themselves made then I appologize.
On Hexbear, transphobic content can only be removed by mods and admins. If a regular user sees a dogwhistle, they can’t just downvote, they have to reply and explain it, and if the mods don’t agree, there will be nothing done about it. This is one of many reasons why Hexbear has so much transphobia.
Lmfao what?
I will explain more concisely:
Giving authorities a monopoly on content curation is bad.
So is everyone on dbzero a mod? I honestly have no idea what you are saying.
Also what transphobic content on Hexbear? You make zero sense.
Everyone on dbzer0 has the power to downvote content they don’t think should be on the site, which means even if a mod does a false negative, the masses may still put the content at the bottom of the feed and express that it’s unacceptable.
Hexbear is super transphobic. Half the people there think dronegender is a fake gender and call dronegender people trolls who are making fun of trans people, because they don’t have the open mindedness necessary to accept a new identity with curiosity instead of hatred. I even got banned for saying gender neutral pronouns exist, because the admins are offended by the idea “they” is a pronoun which does not assign a gender to the referent.
Oh it’s you lmao.
You definitely did not get banned for the reason you stated. You’re in fact doing the thing you got banned for right now by trying to define nonbinary people as not being a gender. I don’t know if you are a troll or just nitpicky to the point of invalidating other people’s experiences but in no way is hexbear transphobic.
Nonbinary isn’t a gender. It’s an umbrella term encompassing thousands of genders. Your insistence that nonbinary people are only one gender is exactly why I say Hexbear is full of transphobes who think of themselves as allies, but whose minds are far too closed.
Nonbinary is not one gender and they/them does not refer to one gender.
Removed by mod
