It has 19 upvotes with 2 downvotes at the moment, which is a much more realistic ratio than what it was.

:(

At the time of writing that comment, it was 2 - 2, with one upvote from me.

I don’t think that getting rid of downvotes is a good idea, it’s a great tool, just a lot of people use it incorrectly

I support downvotes too, even if it doesn’t look like it from the post. If it’s used correctly, it’s a really good system.

You put atleast 130 times more effort to this comment than the average downvoter, thank you, you get my upvote!

The votes still represent something in my opinion, that’s why they’re there. And I really don’t like it when I spend time writing, sometimes researching, formatting and somebody just says „no, this is shit” without even reading the first sentence, because they can just do that.

Thanks for the review!

I tend to leave really long comments, sometimes with a bit of raw information, so I see how that can be the case. Some communities like reading all the way trough, but I’m pretty sure that in some places, they don’t even read my username, just vote based on my avatar.

I mostly see them on political communities, but based on your downvotes, they might be getting out

real. That’s my problem, they don’t have opinions just one good button and one bad button.

https://www.reddit.com/u/Bali10050/

oh no!

It is, here we have hope^TM

I haven’t seen anybody post their actual shit yet, so maybe there is still hope

They might be blocked on lemmy.world, I haven’t ran into them in a long time. Also, thanks for the explanation!

In my country it just became an actual „political platform”, the opposition leader started hosting an official AMA today. Maybe like with all things, it’s just politics ruining everything.

I haven’t seen the hivemind stuff here yet luckily. Also, what is „hive mind hijacking”, I haven’t heard about that before.

Here seems to be quiet, but it also feels empty. 5 memes a day is not enough for a bathroom break, and the total post count isn’t much higher, even when counting the US politics stuff that I as a hungarian have no interest in.

But not this strong. Since the fuck spez event, you can barely get any answers in the help subs, and you get instantly downvoted when you say something different. They once banned me from a subreddit and suspended me for 7 days from the entire platform because I said „No”. This place is much better, but it feels empty.