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Neptune: caught in a trawler net. His absence has gifted us ocean stock depletion and worldwide famine, but also an incredibly detailed understanding of ocean currents.
Wikipedia is no help in explaining this, could you expand on this a little?
Look, this is a tangent but who the hell would downvote a sincere question? Who believes that asking for details is neither worth doing, nor fulfilling in a community called asklemmy? Your finger had better have slipped, because you’ve made an enemy for life, anonymous stranger.
I have a downvote follower, pay no attention to that. Sometimes it gets really bad, which makes me laugh because they have to do a lot of work to do that. I'm not sure who they think they're hurting by having to possibly log out and log in with numerous alts. It's a slow downvoting. Occasionally people really are downvoting me, which is fine too. The points really don't matter.
Considering you moderate a political community I'm shocked you only have 1 downvote follower
It ticks up depending on the timing and comment. The downvotes come in slow enough to be no more than 3ish. This place is so small that you can really tell their patterns.
Oh thank god, it’s just singular fixation, not aspirational deadening of curiosity. I thought it might have been the mention of Wikipedia, which also tends to draw downvotes. I’m sorry you have to deal with that
Thanks, but it really is no big deal. I'm in a lot of the politics spaces, so it's expected there.
I will say to anyone reading this, to upvote comments as much as you think you can. Some new people really do care about upvotes and downvotes. It's a better vibe too if the authentic people are getting upvoted.