What's with the downvotes?
What's with the downvotes?
I can fully understand when me or someone else gets downvotes for saying something controversial or silly (yeah, it happens, I admit), but why would anyone come here and spend time downvoting things that perfectly align with the political climate here?
Are we that popular that we are being displayed in other instances so often? Do we have lurkers who only pretend to be communists? And in that case - Jesus, I thought that I am wasting my time sometimes... 😆
The fact that the first thing I received was a downvote is a comedy gold.
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Don’t worry about it. There are always weird, deranged, and terminally online Libs who are crawling around and mass downvoting everything.
If there is a genuinely bad take it will have 10+ downvotes or around there. Don’t worry about 1-2
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Thanks, I have received almost nothing but warm welcome here and I have very warm feelings for Lemmygrad in general. Online activities are not enough to judge it, but I feel like some of us here would make good friends, if I may being corny for a moment. I like to joke that Lemmygrad members should form an international ML party.
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That’s perfectly alright mate! That’s what this space is for, first and foremost! A safe place to discuss common interests with likeminded people and to grow as people ourselves!
We welcome everyone no matter who you are, but we will defend our borders fiercely from those who seek to undermine the space we have here. So it’s nice to hear that you’ve had a warm welcome!
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Just what we need is another leftist org(someone save the mess that is the left in the states please).
For real though this space has been fairly welcoming. It's cozy here even with the downvote trolls.
And tbf I periodically go over to our "fanclub" comm and downvote any new posts there. But that is mostly because I suspect that user is one of the people that add the common 2 downvotes to a lot of the posts here.
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Hello Fellow Comrades. I would like to join your (insert socialist organization here). I’m interested in (insert socialist ideology). /s
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It's liberal praxis. lol
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What else could they do other than voting harder? 😆
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They’re actually all Wisconcom alts /s
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leave the reddit mindset imo. be brave and share ur opinions even if they might not be well received at this point. every day is different.
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Absolutely, I agree with you. Being a communist alone taught me that popularity of certain view is not a good indication of whether it is correct or not. 🙂
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Don't mind the h8rs.
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As long as there is no system of autohiding/removing posts that receive too many downvotes, it is ultimately meaningless. Anytime certain topics like China would come up on reddit, outside a couple specific communities, I got ready to get massively downvoted for disagreeing with the "china bad" circlejerk.
No real reason to let it bother you, and if anything I find it amusing when I notice I got an extra downvote on every post in my post history after I post something about communism. Like guy has nothing better to do than to go through my post history downvoting me.
It is always pretty funny when you post something that gets 20+ downvotes and not a single person replying about the actual content of what you said. Which tends to not happen here. You will usually get people at least engaging you even if you are parroting mainstream liberal talking points.
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My thoughts exactly.
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The only problem with the upvote/downvote thing is when a post gets brigaded by libs and all the nonsense they spew gets upvoted while corrections get downvoted. They take this mob mentality as "proof" they don't need to listen to the "obviously wrong downvoted tankie" so they don't learn anything or challenge their preconceived notions.
So the worst thing that could happen is something who has no idea what they are talking about doesn't ever stop to think if they are actually wrong. Their loss basically.
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I can sleep at night knowing that these losers have nothing better to do than to hate from outside the club
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The Reddit influx has discovered Lemmygrad.
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In all of life there is a balance.
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I downvoted this specific post just to troll. ;) -
I bet it wouldnt be hard to perform a db query that finds accounts who ONLY downvote local posts from the grad.
No idea what the next steps would be, if any.
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I got -3 on my first post. Solidarity, comrade.