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What gets you downvoted? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What sort of post or comment gets you downvoted the most? Especially if you don't think it's bad behavior in the first place, or don't care. Does not have to be on Lemmy, but we are here... One of the good things about Lemmy IMO is that it's small enough to see the posts that are unpopular. If you do "Top Day" on most channels, you cash reach the bottom, see what people here don't like.
As far as comments, attempting to rebut the person who is telling me my post sucks, is what gets me into negative numbers most often. The OP is going to voite it down, of course, and nobody else cares, usually.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yep, I still make the misstake from time to yime and try and give a resonable take on a rant post when I feel like they are too unfair.

Latst time was a few days ago when I responed to a person in a Linux community ranting about how Windows 11 sucks because he didn't know how to use it properly and that it had the audacity to not include drivers for 20 year old equipment.

I got massively downvoted and after I explained that I was an IT tech that didn't run Linux on my main machine, I was weirdly called out and some idiot claimed that you can't be an IT tech if you are not running Linux as your main computer OS.

It was kinda funny, I was bashed contiously by the open community for a minor disagreement, while I believe that I stayed polite throughout the conversation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Linux users drive me crazy. They clearly see that Windows users try to use Linux like it's Windows and encounter problems. Why can't they see that trying to use Windows like it's Linux will have the same issues?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can be an IT technician with Windows on your main machine. Whether you should be is a different question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

If my needs were better served by Linux on my main machine, then yeah, I'd go Linux, but since Windows better suit my needs at the moment I don't.

I did run Linux as my main OS for about two years, but then my needs changed and I went back to Windows.