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Interesting content gets updoot. Spam, misinformation, and conservative politics get the downdoot.
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Relevant to the discussion (be it top-level or deep in a thread), funny, and factual statements get updoots. Irrelevant comments, false information, poor argumentative skills, and conservative political get the downdoot.
That's shitty imo. I'm on the left but there's plenty of conservative politics that aren't extreme or worthy of burying.
My old coworker was conservative and we had some amazing conversations about politics and culture even though we usually didn't budge much on our positions. He was my favorite person to talk to about it because he brought in "the other side" that I wasn't otherwise exposed to.
Conservative like slow to change or conservative in the modern political sense which just means trying to undo any progress on personal rights?
To the guy I replied to, they're apparently one in the same. But I'm definitely referring to the former. Sometimes it's nice to have someone telling you to pump the brakes when you're cruising on an idea ya know?
Liberals (me included) tend to rely on momentum and sometimes we overshoot. The world needs all kinds of people - even if I disagree with most conservative viewpoints.
I tend to avoid calling slow to change conservative because people and parties who self identify as conservative have been promoting regression on social issues, removing rights, xenophobia, racism, and sexism. They spoiled the term!
Those conversations happen so rarely that it's not worth even considering that as a possibility until a reply or two has shown that they're not going to stonewall the conversation.
In person things are one way, but on the anonymous Internet (especially lemmy and reddit) it's people who are 100% not going to adjust their actively garbage views on things and thus deserve to be treated as the dickheads they too often are
If they don't like being pre judged based on their political beliefs they should rethink why people have an inherant dislike of them, and maybe change. Or learn to deal with the consequences of having dogshit opinions