• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Lemmy has gotten a lot less civil recently, people just downvoting for no reason and calling each other shit they wouldn’t dare say to a living person in front of them

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      7 months ago

      I wouldnt call a few downvotes ‘less civil’. Without the edit, the parent comment looked like a weird non sequitur. With the comment there was more context and now it has a lot of upvotes.

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        7 months ago

        Totally why I clarified. I realized people probably had no idea what I was talking about. I figured more people would get the reference, but was obviously wrong. Not anyone’s fault there but mine!

        Couldn’t not share it with people though. Such a crazy piece of news…

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      7 months ago

      I mean, downvotes are supposed to be for irrelevant comments. Anyone who missed the reference would easily assume it to be irrelevant.

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        7 months ago

        I think it’s amusing how there are several people ITT that think the way people use upvotes and downvotes changed all because some amorphous entity tied to Lemmy said so.

        They are absolutely “I agree with this” and “I disagree with this” buttons, Hexbear should have definitively proven that to all of you.

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          7 months ago

          Just because people stick cotton swabs in their ears doesn’t mean that they’re supposed to be used for that.

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      7 months ago

      people just downvoting for no reason

      Not what they’re for. The downvote is not a “I disagree with this comment” button, It is a measure of how relevant to the discussion a comment is.

      In this case your comment about how everyone is bad and evil and everything is actually not at all relevant to anything in this discussion

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        I think it’s amusing how there are several people ITT that think the way people use upvotes and downvotes changed all because some amorphous entity tied to Lemmy said so.

        They are absolutely “I agree with this” and “I disagree with this” buttons, Hexbear should have definitively proven that to all of you.