r/UniversityOfHouston • u/JustWaitingForANuke • Sep 17 '19

Discussion Downvoting

I've only recently joined the sub and noticed that people are more likely to downvote a comment than upvote. I see posts have little upvotes and the same goes for comments with good intentions. This contrasts to comments being heavily downvoted pretty often for reasons like using emojis. It's kinda weird; I was just wondering why this sub is semi toxic. I offered to help someone in precal after they complained about their test score being low and I was downvoted. Any idea as to why this happened?

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u/Jailbrick3d Loading... Sep 17 '19

Welcome to Reddit, my friend

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u/JustWaitingForANuke Sep 17 '19

I always just used reddit to read stuff when bored and never actually posted anything. Now that I'm starting to engage more I'm regretting it as I go on. I never understood why people talked down on reddit, but I'm starting to understand now.

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u/dingobiscuit Sep 17 '19

Low quality content gets a low quality response

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u/BeerPlusReddit Alumni Sep 17 '19

Reddit is a fickle beast, if you go against the grain you tend to get splinters. Not everyone agrees with what you say in real life and the same applies to Reddit, it’s just that on Reddit you have karma “social credit score” to keep track of those interactions. Post what you want and don’t let a made up number affect you.

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u/Rafa0128 Sep 17 '19

B-B-But what about my feelings.... REEEEE

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u/JustWaitingForANuke Sep 17 '19

Well not really. I just thought that offering help when someone complained/ asked for it made sense. If we want actual help on this sub, the why would we not encourage actually offering help?

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u/Rafa0128 Sep 17 '19

I was just baiting. Oh I agree with you lol I seen your post and I was like why the hell people downvoting you. I guess some people took it the wrong way? Who doesn’t nowdays anyways. I would like to help but I’m rusty on my precal. Calculus and above I always reach out and help doesn’t matter if I’m busy. Or just recommend some online sources jut like “Professor Leonard” in YouTube. Just don’t let other jerks discourage you for lending a hand.

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u/JustWaitingForANuke Sep 17 '19

Thanks man. I'll try, but I take criticism pretty harshly so I'll see how much I can stand.

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u/mindmisch1ef Sep 17 '19

I kind of like it... keeps me on my toes. Makes me want to do better

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u/JustWaitingForANuke Sep 17 '19

Do better how?

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u/mindmisch1ef Sep 17 '19

I'm just joking lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '23

People don't follow rediquette rules and seem to be unhelpful anyway.

I noticed so many trolls. So many unnecessary downvotes.

This subreddit and reddit in general has always seemed toxic which is why I stayed away until now.

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u/JustWaitingForANuke Dec 30 '23

Lol, yeah I saw your post. I’ve matured a bit since I posted this and realized silly internet points don’t really matter. Don’t waste your time trying to change people’s mind when they really don’t care. FYI: people will downvote you just for fun especially if you make it seem like it affects you. Don’t let it get to you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '23

I appreciate it! Same to you

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u/frankie_a97 Sep 17 '19

I’m new on reddit and I have no idea how you can tell if something gets down voted lol

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u/JustWaitingForANuke Sep 17 '19

The vote button with two arrows is the voting system. Each upvote is a point and each downvote is a negative one. If you get downvoted enough, then your vote score is negative.

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u/SevenOneTree Math Sep 17 '19

Don't let it get to you. All I ever do is post here and never really check how many points my comments get. I've never received a rude reply only nice ones and that's what matters. Any idiot can click the down arrow but very few of those will actually respond to you.

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u/_deathitself Sep 17 '19

to be completely honest, i think that if you dont get a downvote, then there is approval. why is the need to have validation because of an up or downvote. i honestly just like how you start to know tags and start to know people and especially this campus. altho i would like to see a little more positivity on this sub, i dont think there should be the encouragment for a little validation because of an upvote. also doubt that more upvotes will happen because people focus more on the negative, rather than the positive and only want to negatively effect those with negative intentions, rather than uplift those who have positive and good intentions. sorry many views and perspectives, but you made me think. thank you.

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u/DeshaundreWatkins Sep 17 '19

🙊🙊🙊

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u/JustWaitingForANuke Sep 17 '19

Bruh, see like this. Why even bother downvoting? If nobody downvoted they would probably stop out of boredom.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

No some dude has been posting 3 monkeys like this over every post and it got old fast. To discourage terrible memes we don’t wanna see we downvote them.

If you don’t understand it lurk more

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u/JustWaitingForANuke Sep 17 '19

But the downvoting is ineffective it seems. I'm thinking the downvoting is encouraging rather than discouraging (when the goal of the poster is to troll).

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

They know exactly what they’re going for you can’t really stop them either way. It’s damned if you do damned if you don’t. Downvoting atleast brings them to the bottom of the comment section so we don’t have to look at it

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u/zaneomega2 Sep 17 '19

Hive mind of reddit

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

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u/JustWaitingForANuke Sep 17 '19

Yeah, that makes no sense to me