Unhelpful / unconstructive
Against genocide supporters
Misinformation, bad attitudes, clichéd jokes
100%. And for me, I downvote every form of unnecessary censorship
Disagree
Disagree
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For content that lowers the quality of the fediverse. Misinformation, reposts, bad faith actors, etc.
Hide post button
Disagree with prejudice.
Is incorrect or does not contribute to the topic of the thread
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
I can’t downvote any content from any instance
Huh, interesting.
I don’t think I like that
misinformation, slurs, incivility, off-topic content, and video links without text summaries
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.
i like to wipe my butt with it
Perfect comment, adding it to the folder
I don’t have a downvote button. I disabled seeing downvotes as a whole as they were massively misused and not super helpful.
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!
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. 🤷
misinformation and acting in bad faith, both of which have a funny habit of occuring at the same time
