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Edit: This isn't a complaint; just an observation.

Totally random thought, but I see so many people wandering around down voting regular posts that are pretty benign. I also see this a lot on another message board that I'm on.

Disagreeing with people is totally fine, and down voting them as a form of disagreeing makes total sense. But with the nature of some of the posts, down voting just seems completely pointless, so I'm wondering if it's just trolls going around being negative. 

I'm going to preemptively down vote this post. 

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I write something I know will be controversial. Sometimes I write something I'm surprised is controversial, but I see it from a different angle and I understand. Sometimes I'm just flat wrong and the downvotes teach me something.

And then sometimes I write something so benign that I assume any downvotes are coming from people so angry about the controversial thing I wrote that they clicked on my profile and downvoted something else to vent their frustration.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to keep the downvoting theme going and downvote you because it's funny, but I can't make myself do it.

But yeah, I get what you're saying. Oddly enough, I've seen downvotes on random things like pictures of someone's dog, or something like that. It's like, who can downvote an adorable dog? 

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I did it for both you guys, and then myself so's fair

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! I love Lemmy 😂

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

May I please have some?