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He is named after an amphibian.

True, there are probably even more senators who are guilty of misconduct in bathrooms and the ratio is even further apart.

God damn it.

Don’t give me hope.

Nah, it should clear out by then.

doesn’t live in a large city

We are still in the first act, but well past the title card.

Vocal idiots rants are currently being turned into actions by the current dipshit in chief.

You are saying down voting is bad, yet you down vote more than me. You are a hypocrite, but I was trying to avoid saying it directly since people get butthurt about that kind of thing.

That is what I said, but apparently you can’t read and thought me pointing out your hypocrisy meant my view changed.

Go upvote more stuff and improve the fediverse.

I can’t explain something you made up.

My opinion is that people should vote however they want becsuse it does not hurt the fediverse, as long as each person votes once. That includes downvoting.

There is also an argument that expecting everyone to agree with and follow the unwritten rules of ‘voting correctly’ is just a vocal minority trying to impose their will on all users.

Generally I limit to subs but browse All occasionally to find new communities. Part of this process is upvoting and down voting stuff and seeing which communities has more stuff I want and less stuff I thought was worth downvoting. I then sub or block after that point.

That is how I notice spammed slop as part of blocking a community. No, I won’t be going back to remove down votes before blocking just because the community is about spamming slop and the posts fit the sub. Harm isn’t a down voting requirement.

It is arrogant to think the context of a community overrides anyone’s personal preferences on how to interact with the voting system.

I worked as a cashier. I’m not here to do math that’s why I’m using the register

You are literally here to do math and the register is just keeping track of it and helping you out to make sure the math you are doing checks out.

I didn’t ask for more to make the change even either as a cashier, but I did understand when they gave extra to get even change because doing math was my job.

Jet has an automated removal bot that will nuke someone for a single down vote. Their opinion is worthless because their moderation is dog shit.

Your question made my brain hurt because I had no idea how you think my opinion did a 180 because I pointed out that you don’t practice what you preach.

You are making my brain hurt.

You said, as a response to me saying that people should be able to vote how they want.

I personally think this sort of stuff helps keep the fediverse from being awesome but you do you!

List of votes for spankmonkey@lemmy.world:

Total post upvotes/downvotes: 38206/883 [39089] 97.74% upvoted

Total comment upvotes/downvotes: 90499/9089 [99588] 90.87% upvoted

List of votes for mybrainhurts@lemmy.ca:

Total post upvotes/downvotes: 5591/171 [5752] 97.20% upvoted

Total comment upvotes: 1081/179 [1341] 80.61% upvoted

Maybe you shouldn’t be down voting so much?

I care about voting freely, not the actual vote results.

I upvote a shit ton of stuff which makes it more visible. That helps the fediverse. The shitty posts and comments that I downvote are what I see keeping the fediverse from being awesome.

Do you take their overall up/down ratio into account?

It’s funny because several mods on that instance do ban people for downvotes.

Sure, go for it. I literally do not care how people use single accounts to vote on any topic.

When they use multiple accounts, yeah that is clearly terrible because they are artificially inflating their votes.

But the downside is that people then upvote or downvote based on their preferences, not the community’s.

This is only a downside for niche communites promoting positive topics like equality. Communities about for profit companies, that promote horrible ideas and people, etc are what downvotes are for.

If there was a community called “Nestlé is awesome” I would hope it gets downvoted into oblivion.