Memes @lemmy.ml

1y ago

What’s the point of unpopular opinions if you can’t show them off

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I’ve only deleted comments when I actually regret posting them, like if I was an absolute dick to someone who didn’t actually deserve it
- Yeah. I remember I got heavily downvoted on reddit once when I made an Office reference, which seemed weird to me since reddit usually loves the Office, but then I only slowly realized in context the reference inadvertently seemed really racist which was very much not my intention so I deleted it.
  I rarely delete otherwise though.
  
  I accidentally defended a paedophile once, didn't know who the person was, just wanted to make a shitty joke.... deleted that real quick.
- Isn't it better to apologise?
  
  I do both! I delete too cause I just don’t like keeping that negativity out there.
  
  Sir, this is the internet.
- Leave it up to remind yourself you can be better.
- Fuck you piece of shit fuck you
  
  nod
- I leave them up, but edit to say what I think about it now. I value transparency and the willingness to change your mind when presented with new facts or apologize for being wrong, and I want to set an example for others to see. I've been an ass and said things I regret later, and I'll do it again I'm sure.

One of the most downvoted posts I remember ever seeing was someone saying “But wasn’t he a psedophile and necrophile?” when Jimmy Saville died. That one turned around very quickly when all the stories came out in the media. Proof that sometimes you should stick to what you know is right.
- Vindication is an underrated emotion.

Me deleting my entire account in shame because I got -2 downvotes
- Me deleting the reposting it knowing that the people who downvoted me won't return

Your boos mean nothing to me; I've seen what you cheer!
- Every breath I take without your permission raises my self-esteem!
- People will downvote a picture of a flower.
  I have fun trying to imagine the person who does that and why?
  Maybe a flower killed their father?
  
  I can imagine a few scenarios in which a flower would be rightfully downvoted:
  Blurry/out of focus/too much jpeg. You know, generally potato quality.
  Sob/stupid story title.
  Obvious stock art.
  Photo of cherry blossoms on a community about fungal fruit bodies.
  My father died from anaphylaxis due to severe pollen allergy.
  
  Severe allergy perhaps. Or maybe the flower is also a popular name, such as Rose or Jasmine, and they hate absolutely hate someone named like that
  
  Kbin gives me the ability to see up/downvotes, and this is usually what I've used it for in the rare cases I've cared to check. To satisfy your curiosity, it's usually accounts who do absolutely fuck all except downvote seemingly at random. Never comment. Sometimes they've never even upvoted anything.
  Twice only has it been someone I recognized and knew to be generally a normal human user. One was and still is a fan of melodrama, so they were probably having One Of Those Days. The other, I'm still a little confused because I knew them to be of above average intelligence, but I think I have to chalk that up to fat thumbs.
  Sorry if I'm ruining the fun. Can confirm the only haters your hypothetical flower has are absolute weirdos, though, and questionably human.

I think North Korea is an unpleasant place to be, Taiwan isn't part of the PRC, and Stalin was a murderous dick. Makes me unpopular on Lemmy, but I gotta be me.
- That's the popular opinion everywhere here except lemmygrad and hexbear
  
  And Lemmygrad/Hexbear are known for brigading other places to try and (without success) control the narrative. They openly admitted to doing so
- Facts

Yea sometimes I get downvotes but I know I'm right.
Sometimes I have upvotes on a cringe comment and delete those lol.
- Posting about the stuff I am knowledgeable about sometimes gets me the most downvotes.

On Reddit I feel like people would just look for heavily downvoted comments to tag in and add their two cents, which could easily mean your inbox exploding, so I could understand deleting just to stop the flood, but generally I don't worry too much about deleting old comments just because people didn't agree with me.
- On reddit the only thing that matters is the first few votes. The content of your comment doesn't matter, people will pile on the upvotes or downvotes because agreeing with the group gives you a dopamine rush
- At this point I think I would seriously start to worry about myself if everyone on Reddit agreed with me:-P.
- So true. 5 likes and I smash that like button fr fr no cap.

I am too lazy and not petty enough to delete the comments I post. takes me too much effort to go thru with making one anyways

Definition of "I said what I said"

Downvotes are a badge of honor.
- consider yourself dishonoured

I’ve been known to delete posts that get one or two downvotes, makes me realize my comment wasn’t that helpful or interesting. If one of them gets a lot, it stays. I’m happy to be wrong or unpopular, at least the comment added to the discourse :)

The only time I delete comments is if I accidentally comment it twice.
- Same, unless of course I commented it twice on purpose.
- Same, unless of course I commented it twice on purpose.

Take pride in your downvoted posts

The best are the downvotes without comment. To me they just read “Shit, thats a great point. But, I can’t outright admit to being wrong so downvote.”
- Or maybe you're not worth the effort. Your content doesn't add to the discussion, so why should ours add to yours?
  Be less delusional.

I'll delete a comment if the entire comment is factually false. Otherwise it stays up.
- If everyone did this the internet would be 1% of the size it is now.
  
  And 99% better

My whole career on Stack Exchange…

Never back down never what?
- Never give up, never surrender.
  
  Never gonna give you up

Your ancestors may be smiling at you, but your descendants will be smiling at me!

Edward Macaroni Fork

Seems the obvious course of action honestly

Downvotes on Lemmy are just an indicator that you are unlikely to succeed as a socialist politician at the national level. Short of that, I would ignore their value.

Damn i was downvited to oblivion by telling EV car batt arent reliable
Then i was telling those EV fanbois that Toyota has made the right decision to shift their RD in hydrogen rather than pussies heavies battery
Yea they did make a Hydrogen V8 engine !!!!
Hope is not lost
It make more noise with a enviro friendly engine !!!
Duh
Look at Siemens developing train that run on hydrogen
It called calorific content !!!!!!
Batt cant touch the level og hydrogen potential per volume
Plus they so heavy those ev car …they eill pollute more with specialized ture
Blah blah
Downvote me to helll.
- I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the downvotes you receive are for your absurd use of punctuation lmao
  
  XD savage!
  
  Probably right. But tbh, whenever I see this, my assumption is either the user is in their 60s and unused to typing, or more likely they're typing in their non-native language and using the typical rules of their native one. And I'd feel shitty making fun of either.
  It would be a better internet if that were everyone's first assumption, because I turn out to be correct way more often than not. A quick stalk through their profile proves it to be the second one — punctuation is handled with an extra space in French.
  While this isn't supposed to be true of Canadian french, which is what they've claimed, I could see that still leaking into speech somehow and I'm kinda curious how it happened. Any québécois, how rigidly are English spacing rules adhered to?
- The problems with hydrogen have never been with using it as a fuel source. The first problem is storage/transport of the fuel and the second is what happens to a vehicle with a hydrogen fuel tank when it's ruptured in an accident?
  I can see a train making sense - a lot more space for storage and cooling, plus the risk of an accident is very low. But I haven't seen anything about these issues being addressed in motor vehicles.
  
  Hydrogen takes a lot of energy to extract, transport, and store. It makes it orders of magnitude less efficient than simply using that energy to charge a battery directly.
- pussies heavies battery
  ?

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