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Browsing your recent comments, have you considered ... not commenting about downvotes? I see a lot of "Why am I getting downvoted for this?", "Group think, do
by saalweachter 6y ago
Browsing your recent comments, have you considered ... not commenting about downvotes?
I see a lot of "Why am I getting downvoted for this?", "Group think, downvotes, blah blah blah.", "I'm going to get downvoted for this but...", all of which are just magnets for more downvotes.
I think if you just stopped commenting on the downvoting, well, you'd still get the odd comment downvoted from time to time, because hey, you say things people don't like, you're going to get the downvotes, and yeah, people don't always explain why, which I know is annoying ... but you'd at least no longer be compounding it with the three or four follow-on comments that also all get downvoted, and your net karma would probably be fine.
- downandout 6y agoYou saw a recent thread about it in my history, but that is not something I normally comment on. I’ll bring it up every now and then when I say something entirely factual because I find it funny that people will downvote indisputable facts simply because they don’t happen to like what the fact says about their preferred narrative. But this was happening long before I ever started talking about them. It’s appropriate to talk about here because the voting system is the topic of this article.