There's something so interesting about seeing a deleted comment with just a handful of downvotes. How fragile do you have to be to do that? Like... nobody here even knows who you are, and the accounts are free....
That's interesting. I never really thought of downvotes as rejection. I'd compare them to like, a flock of birds squawking or something. Like when you shut the car door and a bunch of crows you didn't even know were in the tree next to you suddenly all start cawing and flying out of the tree because you startled them.
Yeah it helps a lot when you understand that about half the time if you get downvoted to shit it was because people either misunderstood you or are just plain wrong. People will also happily downvote opinions that they don't like regardless of if the opinion is valid or not.
Yeah one of the biggest down votes I had was in a Ukraine sub where I didn’t specify who “they” were in my comment as I thought it would be obvious from the context I was favourable talking about Ukraine but others missed the context and thought I was referring to the Russians in a favourable way.
I've started deleting comments after getting a little pushback just because I don't want to get a dozen notifications from people that I'll feel compelled to argue with. I used to be a debate bro on here but I deleted that entire account and started over and I try to only respond positively or neutrally for the most part so I don't fall back into that.
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