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[–] [email protected] 175 points 2 months ago (29 children)

WHO is the one guy who downvotes you???

"NO! UNPROFITABLE BUSINESSES DESERVE TO THRIVE!!! MUST FEED THE BILLIONAIRES!!!"

Maybe OpenAI learned to downvote...

[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I've seen threads where every single comment, no matter how anodyne, has 1 downvote. Don't bother yourself over it. That way lies madness.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Downvoting for the use of an uncommon word.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Supercalifragalisticexpialidocuious

Edit: 10 people here didn't grow up with Mary Poppins.....

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You spelled it wrong you brick.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

You could even say his spelling is quite atrocious

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lmao the down votes on this are really funny to me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Just imagine baron bomburst and the child catcher furiously downvoting this comment lol

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What I get a kick out of is the down and upvotes mean basically nothing and yet people still get super sensitive about them. They only move your comment up or down the thread. It's not like reddit where there is a karma count for all your posts and comments. Hell you don't even get auto hidden like the way reddit would do. You just get downvoted.

Some people downvote to show disapproval. Others downvote if the comment doesn't add to the conversation. Still others are just trolling. No one should worry about the downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

See I look at it differently.

An upvote means:

You're the coolest person that's ever lived, and I'm desperate for you to put your baby in me, even if that's not biologically possible! You should be supreme ultimate being of the universe, and all shall cherish your existence until the end of time!

And a downvote means:

You sack of shit! You human garbage! Nobody loves you. Everyone hates you. The world has a better time when you're not around, you waste of human skin! Your parents should have used a condom, and the world regrets they didn't every day. Go live under a bridge, homeless, dirty, and alone, you genetic waste of space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sound was quite atrocious, downvoted 👎

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think people are missing the joke here 😄

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Venn diagram of Lemmy users and Mary Poppins stans barely touching.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

anodyne

anodyne /ăn′ə-dīn″/ adjective

  1. Capable of soothing or eliminating pain.
  2. Relaxing. "anodyne novels about country life."
  3. Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

tanks fer noo werd dae fren

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

First read serving sausage pain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like a misusage of a very common word in French: anodin

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'd say a good 10% of English is just misusing words from other languages to be fair.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's also really easy to mis-swipe on a comment on some apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Some people also suck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always figure it's someone whose life has become so pathetic, they bitterly downvote every single comment to try feel some control. And as a result, they feel like the Phantom of the Socials. Alone, but the true master of the place.

"Everyone must wonder, 'Who keeps downvoting us?' It is I! The true Master of Lemmy and- No, mother!... Yes, mother!... I tried but nobody wants to talk to me!... I don't want to!... Yeah, she's cute!... I don't want you to do that!... Mother put the phone down!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

LOL, I can picture this person. They probably have a gross-looking bandaid on their downvote finger.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

There are some hardcore "copyright shouldn't exist" folks out there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

The guy who wants their AI girlfriend yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

WHO is the one guy who downvotes you???

That's the bot that ChatGPT operates here on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm unclear on context. Are you saying Mbin users can see who upvotes/downvotes?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Votes aren't private on the fediverse, it's just a that some interfaces won't display them. Also, instance admins can see who voted too.

But like @[email protected] said

Don’t bother yourself over it. That way lies madness.

It mainly useful for admins to detect if there is some vote manipulation going on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Sam Altman lurking around...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

To steel man the downvoters, maybe there are other solutions besides killing off every business that can't afford to comply with copyright. After all, isn't the whole point of copyright to enable the capitalist exploitation of information?

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