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Is it rude to interrogate downvoters? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
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I'm very curious about the reasoning different people use when deciding to downvote a post or comment. Often, when something gets "heavily" downvoted, the OP will ask some variation of "why the downvotes?". This is sometimes answered with sincere criticism, but sometimes is received even more poorly than the original offending post.

Do you downvote people who ask "why the downvotes?"? What informs the decision?

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[–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

I sometimes wish I could turn it off lol. I love games, and the way that social media gets gamified with upvotes and downvotes (and the way that humans respond to those game elements, or make up their own rules around those game elements) is endlessly fascinating to me. I don't know if I'll ever get over how fuckin weird the internet is.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    This is why old internet forums had higher quality discussions and tighter communities than anything on reddit.

    Cuz it used to be that the only way to register disagreement, was to voice your opinion. Granted back then you could just call OP a fag and that was acceptable.

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