i reserve it for closet fascists, morons, bots, and the incorrect.
i like to wipe my butt with it
Perfect comment, adding it to the folder
misinformation and acting in bad faith, both of which have a funny habit of occuring at the same time
Misinformation, bad attitudes, clichéd jokes
100%. And for me, I downvote every form of unnecessary censorship
I downvote anything that I deem worsens the quality of the community. This includes, but is not limited to:
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misinformation
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trolls
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bad faith engagement
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uncalled for hostility and incivility
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very lazy, low effort posts/comments
Perfect! I’d add mindless slogans as well.
“The cruelty is the point!”
Or any of 100 other endlessly repeated replies.
Wouldn’t that just fall to the last bullet point?
Yep! But I particularly hate the repeated slogans.
They’re called cliches btw
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To add a little colour to my front page.
Disagree
I don’t have a downvote button but if I did I’d use it on misinformation. Things that are factually incorrect or unsubstantiated.
Is incorrect or does not contribute to the topic of the thread
Hide post button
the instance i use doesn’t have one
The instance?
Usually it’s a client option, not an instance thing.Several instances disable downvotes for their users. The one I am on does as well, so that brigading and botted downvotes by queerphobic people are less effective iirc.
In practice I can’t downvote things and they also don’t get shown to me.
But you can you still downvote on content from other instances? It’d be kinda strange if an instance prevented their users from downvoting elsewhere
I can’t downvote any content from any instance
Huh, interesting.
I don’t think I like that
I use it for
- Not relevant
- Needs editing for writing mistakes.
Bad faith arguments or inflammatory nonsense. We can disagree and I’ll upvote if you’re actually speaking in good faith.
Pretty much any form of, “Whataboutism” gets downvoted. No one was talking about C, why are you acting indignant about C when people were discussing A and B, you know?
To order a delicious sorbet.
