And that would only exemplify my point.

The voting systems on platforms like this are based almost exclusively on the honor system, even more so on Lemmy, where votes aren't calculated and tallied in the same manner as they are on Reddit. Ultimately, they serve little purpose beyond providing a metric for measuring how much engagement a post is receiving.

Technically, according to the platform's own rules, you're supposed to vote on the content and context of a post, not your knee-jerk emotional reaction to it. Whether or not you like me, my tone, or the way I express myself should have absolutely no bearing on how you evaluate the factual merit of my comment.

For the record, I'm fully aware of this phenomenon, and I'm perfectly prepared to receive whatever negative attention comes with it. However, sometimes calling people out for what they are isn't necessarily being mean. Sometimes it's simply being brutally honest.

The complete lack of even a basic understanding of how the American stock market works is genuinely shocking. These are people with access to the internet, meaning they have the resources to educate themselves, yet they choose instead to broadcast their uninformed opinions for everyone else to shake their heads at.

There is absolutely no accountability here. Nobody, least of all the administrators, seems particularly interested in holding anyone responsible for the misinformation and intellectual sewage being presented as legitimate information.

And that's why you think I'm being mean. I'm not. I'm simply unwilling to pretend that ignorance is knowledge or that uninformed opinions deserve the same consideration as factual, well-reasoned arguments.