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What gets you downvoted? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 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] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Saying something positive about the United States, or something negative about CCP.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh yeah. I'm pretty new to all of this but just mentioning the fact that the CCP is doing raunchy stuff got me downvoted to hell. Even when those replies were provided with links to articles and facts I am being called racist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s just lemmy.ml. Most other users on Lemmy are not like that. I would strongly consider changing instances of you are not too invested in your current one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not going to work if the instances determine what behaviour is acceptable on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I’m not exactly sure what you mean by this but there are many different instances with many different rules. I’m sure you can find one that is close to your viewpoints.

Personally I don’t think it’s important to be exactly in line with your instance but I do find a subset of Lemmy.ml users noxious enough that I try to minimize my interactions with their instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

"Racist" is over used so much now that it's losing its impact, which is horrible, since it needs to remain an ugly word.

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