I’m critically engaging and pugjesus downvoted both of my comments without responding. But they usually do, and I genuinely like to hear other people’s opinions — especially when they’re far different from mine.
Weird when a community that criticizes instances for authoritarianism and groupthink is… well…
Downvote and move on, that’s a pretty basic reaction to something you don’t agree on the internet. Not all interaction on the internet need to be an essay and shit flinging, not everyone have the time to engage every comment they don’t like. I don’t really like it as well, but i do use it from time to time and i understand why people do it, they just don’t care about having argument every moment of their online life.
And i’m not sure what you mean by “critically engaging”, you simply posted a link and say it’s interesting. There’s nothing deep about it for people to engage other than a simple “ok”, which tend to replaced by the vote button.
A single user is hardly representative of an entire community, and also, downvotes don’t mean groupthink. Anyone can upvote or downvote for a variety of reasons. Personally, I very rarely vote, and I think downvotes should be removed entirely.
You know what? That’s my mistake. For whatever reason, I thought they were a mod here.
Regardless, posting the craziest parts of comment sections are no more representative of an instance than a single user represents a community. Basically any comment section over 30 comments is going to have some out-there ideas.
Having a community where people can openly call them “fascist bootlickers” for theories somewhat based on the context of the rest of the comments, that have nothing to do with fascism, is kinda nuts.
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I’m critically engaging and pugjesus downvoted both of my comments without responding. But they usually do, and I genuinely like to hear other people’s opinions — especially when they’re far different from mine.
Weird when a community that criticizes instances for authoritarianism and groupthink is… well…
Downvote and move on, that’s a pretty basic reaction to something you don’t agree on the internet. Not all interaction on the internet need to be an essay and shit flinging, not everyone have the time to engage every comment they don’t like. I don’t really like it as well, but i do use it from time to time and i understand why people do it, they just don’t care about having argument every moment of their online life.
And i’m not sure what you mean by “critically engaging”, you simply posted a link and say it’s interesting. There’s nothing deep about it for people to engage other than a simple “ok”, which tend to replaced by the vote button.
A single user is hardly representative of an entire community, and also, downvotes don’t mean groupthink. Anyone can upvote or downvote for a variety of reasons. Personally, I very rarely vote, and I think downvotes should be removed entirely.
You know what? That’s my mistake. For whatever reason, I thought they were a mod here.
Regardless, posting the craziest parts of comment sections are no more representative of an instance than a single user represents a community. Basically any comment section over 30 comments is going to have some out-there ideas.
Having a community where people can openly call them “fascist bootlickers” for theories somewhat based on the context of the rest of the comments, that have nothing to do with fascism, is kinda nuts.