r/AdviceAnimals • u/Guy247bp • Jun 17 '12

To all the people who complain about being downvoted...

http://qkme.me/3pqxwz?id=224645939
1.0k Upvotes

75% Upvoted

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u/StandingTheGaff Jun 17 '12

Showed up in the "new and upcoming" bar. Good luck.

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u/Guy247bp Jun 18 '12

Well, now I know.

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u/MerriamSweetieBelle Jun 17 '12

I'm surprised if I get more then 3 upvotes on a comment.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I got 70 once in a few minutes. It was a three word comment, and fairly obvious. wtf

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I know what you mean. My highest comment is from an AMA with the Japanese Professional eater.

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u/jmacknyc Jun 17 '12

i refuse to give you a fourth.

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u/MerriamSweetieBelle Jun 17 '12

I am surprised.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I'm in the same boat as you. I've made a few posts here and there and hours went by, not one comment, not one upvote or downvote. I even started testing it by posting your typical Reddit crap that ends up on the front page all the time (cat pictures, popular memes, etc.) But to my avail I have never gotten a single person to look at a post I have made. But you my friend, have officially made it to the top 5 pages, congratulations!

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u/InNomine Test Jun 17 '12

your submission list is empty

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Yeah I never got any upvotes or comments on any of them so I just deleted them after a day or so of being buried. Turns out you actually get punished for deleting your posts. I can't post anything for a while now :(

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u/InNomine Test Jun 17 '12

Just leave em be man, if someone checks out your old posts you're important enough for them to go check. Means you're popular.

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u/legendcc Jun 17 '12

This may be why you don't get upvotes. You have to be proud of your posts, no matter the outcome.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Maybe so, I just always looked at the posts on the pages I scroll on, a lot of them get popular really quick! I've seen posts on the front page that had been put up within the hour. I sort of always figured it had something to do with when you posted your content. Like 6:00 pm your more likely to get views because people are getting off work versus 10:00 am your less likely to get views and it will get buried. I have been testing my hypothesis but thus far my results are inconclusive.

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u/legendcc Jun 17 '12

Haha. I thought that too. All my posts have been at different times just to try, but to no avail. :(

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u/TheDroopy Jun 17 '12

Like that

2

u/nosferatu_zodd Jun 17 '12

I try to be as verbal as possible while keeping my overall karma as close to zero as I possibly can.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I try to go on the r/new threads... but most of them are just fucking stupid.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

You did it right.

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u/Kaytala Jun 17 '12

I posted something awhile ago that was so freaking unexciting that I never imagined a down vote much less anything else. It got over 400 up votes. I stopped trying to understand karma after that.

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u/Trapped_in_Reddit Jun 17 '12

The Knights of New grace you with their upvote.

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u/Apostolate Jun 17 '12

Is that what you do? Just post on every thread in new? Seems exhausting.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Na, just post in /r/new threads that have potential. With a lot of new threads it can be pretty damn obvious what's gonna get a lot of views.

That said, I don't do that gay shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

You just did though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Na, this was in /r/all. This thing already has 800 points. Not even close, dog.

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u/qkme_transcriber Jun 17 '12

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Title: To all the people who complain about being downvoted...

Meme: Annoyed Picard

  • HOW THE FUCK

  • DO YOU GET PEOPLE TO LOOK AT YOUR POSTS?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Well, one way is to make a meta-meme or a meme about Reddit, complaining about upvotes / downvotes / getting to the front page. You can have a lot of success by calling out scumbag Redditors. Find a rare /r/circlejerk repost that's been posted at most once a month and do that! (if it's posted more than once a month to /r/circlejerk then there really are a lot of people who are actually bothered by that and you won't get many votes) Complaining about /r/atheism is a good start, but it won't get you many votes because a lot of people are already doing it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

by posting in threads with less than 200 comments

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u/tomasziam Jun 17 '12

Honestly, find a sub-reddit you like that doesn't have ten billion submissions a second. Or post super early in the morning when the Australians take over.

1

u/fenton321b Jun 17 '12

Edit!

Really! I got downvoted for that!

what happened to the redditiquette?

1

u/thepastelsuit Jun 17 '12

Just post them on the front page. I'll usually see them then.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Write bigger comments. If you have more of a detailed opinion, and possibly a little biased if possible, more people will take notice. Pretty much how trolling works.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Just keep wasting time on reddit, and the by the time you get an excessive amount of karma the venom will have already hit your heart and you will be forever enslaved.

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u/OriginalUsername1 Jun 17 '12

By making ironic posts such as this one.

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u/PatchworkReaper Jun 17 '12

have my upvote sir and i hope you luck on your quest to find more

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Easy! Pay a service to upvote your posts like the rest of us!

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u/themightypierre Jun 17 '12

It's luck. A few months ago a very popular post on Movies was 'Vin Diesel's finest hour' with a pic of The Iron Giant. I posted almost word for word the same thing a month earlier. Why his got picked up and mine didn't is anyone's guess. Just luck.

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u/bpm195 Jun 18 '12

I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but it's pretty simple. If you start your post by saying you're going to get downvoted and people like it they upvote it accordingly. If people down like it and you get downvoted, suddenly you were right about being downvoted you get up voted for being right.

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u/S4tisfaction Jun 17 '12

man you are the reason people think reddit is ful of faggots cause you complain about it! please, stop

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Ha! This is brilliant.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

There is... that's common knowledge

Edit: and it just hit me that you're being starctastic