https://feddit.org/post/13994826/7165181

Everything I downvoted was because I genuinely do not think it’s good. Like meat is not going to cure cancer.

I actually really like eating meat I just try to life a life that gives others room to enjoy this earth too without mutually destroying it.

Please tell me how I am the asshole :)

  • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    35·
    3 days ago

    I think you’re making it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is.

    Well, the developers did make it a feature to be able to ban based on voting.

    We didn’t always have that feature, it’s relatively new. So I guess there were enough people asking for it that it became a thing. Also, you yourself mentioned that you were troubled at seeing the “normalization” of the practice, so obviously there are enough people seeing it as an issue that you have noticed it.

    Also, you put too much value into the meaning of votes.

    Again, I’d love if Lemmy got rid of the option to upvote/downvote. And just for background, I once had a guy who would take screen shots of how many dowvotes I had on my posts, then post that screenshot, and laugh about it and use that to argue to others that they should just bully me off of Lemmy. I won’t say his name here, but he still mentions my name a lot. lol

    Learn to deal with criticism.

    There’s criticism, and then there’s the weird stalker types that seem to be on Lemmy that become serial downvoters. There are even some that create downvoting bots. Yeah, bots just to downvote. That has also been an issue that admin had to work on.

    No voting at all, would solve it though!

      • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        32·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, we need to make sure people like you and ideas like yours infest as few communities as possible.

        That sounds like the very censorship you seem to be arguing against though.

        I’m going to ignore you now.

        Of course, you’re free to ignore me. That is the right attitude! I would prefer people “ignore” and “block” rather than become serial downvoters.

        Thanks, friend! :)