Point out tankies' abundant similarities to the pigs in Animal Farm.
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Point out tankies' abundant similarities to the pigs in Animal Farm.
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Slagging China, pointing out hydrogen vehicles are a stupid idea, lots of snide responses
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)
Disagreeing with the consensus of the post and the comments. When the post has an agenda or a viewpoint that every comment so far heartily agrees with, I just move on and let the little echo chamber echo.
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.
I have no idea because I use browser tools to hide the element that shows vote scores. If people don't like what I have to say and want me to know about it they can take the time to write a response.
If someone is downvoted, someone else comments and gets upvoted, and you reply to the upvoted comment to defend the downvoted comment, you will get downvoted. Probably 95% of the time. It doesn't matter how right they are, or how mistaken the upvoted one is.
Especially getting into an argument with the upvoted one and hanging onto the downvoted one's side.
Also, being downvoted is likely to get you downvoted more. That contributes to the above effect.
Without pre-existing up/downvotes, the best way to get downvoted is to be needlessly aggressive without being funny.
To get a downvote from me, just try to use "of" as a verb. (E.g., "would of")!
I've gotten downvoted for saying that full remote may not be the best for employers.
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.
Siding with the police
Saying something that is insufficiently negative about Elon Musk. Or Mark Zuckerberg, he's another one on the "villain" list.
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.
Lemmy is more usable than kbin so when I moved, I found myself posting and commenting more. I think I've received at least one downvote every time I've done anything. ๐
I don't mind. If it can improve some poor sad shlub's day slightly, smack my downvote.