https://feddit.org/post/13994826/7165181
Everything I downvoted was because I genuinely do not think it’s good. Like meat is not going to cure cancer.
I actually really like eating meat I just try to life a life that gives others room to enjoy this earth too without mutually destroying it.
Please tell me how I am the asshole :)
YDI
You went to a community you disagree with and downvoted almost everything that was there. Sounds like probable trolling to me.
They down voted misinformation. Isn’t that the ‘correct’ way to use the down vote button?
Edit: The fact that someone down voted this comment is hysterical.
There is no point to downvote very old poss. If you to a profile and downvote dozens of posts it’s spam and most admin will not allowed
If it is all misinformation and I want to reduce its visibility, why does volume of down votes matter?
I mean the whole idea of ‘down voting too much’ is that the down votes, which are basically instant after reading a post or comment, are done in a short period of time. If someone takes a few minutes to browse a community to see if maybe a couple of the terrible posts are outliers and vote as they go, is that really any different than down voting them when they are noticed coming through a feed organically?
Note that nobody cares about the frequency of up votes.
If you think it’s all misinformation but you don’t block the community (or even post your correct information), at some point you are just wasting your time.
People don’t scroll more than 1 hour a feed. That mean there is no point of downvoting a 9 hours old post that did not reach any top or active posts
If there is no point because it won’t be seen then there would be no negative impact from the downvotes, and punishing someone for downvoting ‘old’ misinformation would be silly.
I downvote misinformation because if someone comes across the community later they are going to see those old posts too. Same reason for downvoting a 5 minute old post as it would for a 5 day old post, misinformation is misinformation.
People don’t go directly in a community. They only interact if they find posts in the all feed and interact with individual posts
If you believe that, then why is it a problem?
spam is spam
You could block it. That would reduce your visibility to it completely.
I went to the community because a post from it crossed my hot posts page. I did disagree with the post and subsequently checked out the community.
But then you proceed to downvote every post in the community. That’s where you went wrong. You should have realised that you’ll likley disagree with almost anything posted there and should have just blocked it.
The community in question is entirely dedicated to dangerous medical misinformation, they deserve worse than downvotes