We're squarely in our "good vibes only" era as a species.
You don't have to like facts for them to be facts.
Careful son, you're perilously close to saying "feelings"
If it was here on Lemmy, there's a good chance many of the downvotes are the same person on multiple accounts engaging in vote manipulation. Probably true on Reddit, too, but much harder to confirm since none of that stuff is public.
I can't believe that shit is a thing. I mean, don't these ppl know about having a job, a favorite PC-game or at the very least smoking weed?
Touching grass (all interpretations)
(checks notes, statistically analyzing frequency patterns, outsourcing to consulting firm) Apparently not!
Also, downvotes are fun to collect! All of you're grandmother's r poopieheads!
I complained about this downvoting behavior in the past (on a different account), pointing out specific accounts, and the admins and mods don't care. They told me not to complain, instead.
I wouldn't put it past some instance admins to be the ones engaging in the vote manipulation themselves. There's plenty of dickhead admins that spun up their own instances because their views aren't welcome elsewhere and they can more easily control an echo chamber.
If it was on .world no, they don’t care.
The mods were on .world. The accounts were from several different instances.
I figured. They’d rather not rock the boat than do what’s right.
don't forget that downvotes mostly help with sorting. they don't mean "this is wrong". they mean the reader didn't like it and it should be sorted further down or even start collapsed. it can just be a highly unpopular or disgusting truth ppl want to swipe under the rug. it can also be totally irrelevant or link/quote sites ppl don't like and want to reduce traffic to or be forgotten (reddit, xitter, fb come to mind)
it's just a quick feedback that can help the community.
I haven't seen it that bad on this platform, but on reddit it's so awful that I have to always check downvoted comments for the 50/50 chance that the comment is entirely reasonable and provides genuinely beneficial information, rather than being completely insane.
It's also just really sad that people would often ask questions and then downvote an answer not for being wrong, but because it was something they didn't want to hear. Then immediately after respond with, "You have so many downvotes, you must be wrong." One of the old legal subreddits from around five years ago was infamous for this. Why yes, go ahead and trust the unverified user who didn't link to any code. I'm sure they are absolutely correct.
With respect to Lemmy and Reddit (don't have much experience with other social media platforms), it often just comes down to the audience.
Some users and some subs are just so fragile and so propagandized that any tiny bit of resistance or any comment slightly against the standard is met with down votes and negativity.
On Reddit, I think my most down voted comment that's coming to mind was in an environmental sub. Someone mentioned that they didn't see any "bugs" around their outdoor lights the night prior even though those lights would have been covered in bugs when that person was a kid.
I acknowledged that I am fully aware that insect populations are in collapse/decline. However, what the person was witnessing wasn't a fair comparison because it was currently winter time where they lived (which was obvious from their other comments) and because modern LED lights don't produce as much heat or ultraviolet light (both things are highly attractive to nocturnal insects) as previous technology.
I think I got something like -342 on my comment within a day or two.
It's frustrating how many assumptions people make about your beliefs just because you are trying to make a purely fact-based correction. Like if I try to say something like "the victim was actually armed when they were shot by the police" (made up example) people just instantly assume I'm a fascist bootlicker when I'm really just trying to get the facts straight. It's just that misinformation that goes against prevailing opinion gets instantly swatted down but misinformation that validates people's opinions is tolerated way more than it should be.
We are in a purely vibes based media landscape. The left cares more about facts than does the right, but overall neither cares overly much about them.
I've been accused of providing ai generated information then I've provided a wiki source and gotten more downvotes. I feel like the only possible way someone could be convinced that a fact is an ai hallucination is to have read the fact I provided, googled said fact, seen the fact in the ai summary and then decided "it's in the summary it must be false." That's such a hypocritical thing to do after accusing someone of being wrong and using ai in my opinion.
There was this one magical time where posting a source got this one user to change their mind and I don't know if I should be happy that it worked one time or sad that it's only worked one time. Also still got downvoted, only after the person I replied to admitted they were wrong did people start coming around but the ratio was still fucked. Something like 50 votes of them saying I was wrong to my like 5 providing a source.
The panels are out of sequence. The accusation goes after the Wikipedia post.
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dislikes are certain when dealing with all the unreasonables. The tankies, the vegans and grammar nazis spring to mind. These groups will brigade in to stomp on any one who hurts their fragile feels. I enjoy a large number of dislikes just as much as a large number of likes. I know I've put my finger on the center of the subject either way.
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