context also heavily welcome.

  • Mickey7@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    I honestly don’t remember any specifically. Probably because I’m not political, but I have never “deleted” a down voted comment. It’s phony social media who cares about “votes”

      • atro_city@fedia.io
        3·
        3 days ago

        It looks like I make 5 comments a day on average. Been here for a year, so that’s not happening 😅

  • nikosey@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 days ago

    i once criticized Salvador Dali’s artwork. turns out people really love that guy and i’m a moron

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 days ago

        Well Dalis work are art no discussion needed IMO, Dada toilets or pouring paint, well let’s say that I don’t think it’s art, but be free to think that if you so do.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    3 days ago

    Mine, at 75 downvotes, was:

    You know, if you use Linux you don’t have to jump through hoops like this (trivial though they may be). Wouldn’t it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

    This was on a thread about some workaround to remove ads in Windows.

    It was still very net positive in terms of upvote/downvote ratio, so Microsoft simps can suck it, LOL.

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      As someone who loves and prefers Linux but is forced to use Windows for work, I wouldn’t necessarily have down voted you, but I can understand why people did.

      Edit: but I up voted you here, if that helps.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    41·
    3 days ago

    I’m pretty sure my bickering about the election. I was very unpopular during that period. Now I’m just regular unpopular. 👍🏾

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    Had to skim through a bit, but it appears to be this one:

    https://lemmy.world/comment/9834772

    I suggested that people could use throwaway temporary email accounts if they didn’t want to risk using their real email to register for Sony’s annoying forced PSN registration for their PC games.

    I’ve shared a few hot takes here and there on Lemmy so I am surprised that this one ended up being my lowest (so far).

    I don’t know if I was downvoted for angering the Sony fans by notion that there could be security concerns with PSN, or people who disliked the suggestion that they didn’t have to use their real emails to still register for an account, or both.

  • Jumi@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 day ago

    Mine was saying that 15 is old enough to be aware of what’s going on in the world regarding some UK teen that gave up UK citizenship to move to some place in the Middle East and wasn’t allowed to come back. Or something along those lines.

    It got -20.

  • Bob@feddit.nl
    6·
    3 days ago

    This one: https://feddit.nl/post/1819542/1925630

    The funny thing is, if you click on the context button and show all the comments, one agreeing with me has something like 120 upvotes, so I suppose I was just being too cheeky or something. Sometimes I wonder what proportion of people are using the downvote as a disagree button compared to as a “doesn’t contribute to the discussion” button.

    • psychOdelic@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      31·
      3 days ago

      I use it as a “don’t like it” so if I disagree I downvote, if it doesn’t fit in the discussion I down vote as well. I don’t think it matters too much, what matters is your own opinion.

      • Blue@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        Nothing is ever “free”, most of the stuff on the internet is delivered to you with the “payment” of serving you ads. It’s totally within your right to ignore the ads on your screen as long as it is served out it’s OK, but if you stop ads from ever coming through you’ve just gotten access to the stuff you wanted and no “payment” (ad) has been served.

        I consider that to be a form of piracy. I’m not saying it’s always unethical, I would say having a browser adblocker is necessary because of all the bad garbage out there. I run UBlock Origin and PiHole on my devices so I can not see any ads at all and I consider that piracy in my case.

        I know alot of people would disagree, piracy may not be the right word but I think it’s important to think about it.

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          3 days ago

          Blocking ads is a security necessity, not piracy.

          I’m sure you are trying to equate blocking of ads to cutting off their income stream or something, but it isn’t anything like that. It is just not displaying something that would be ignored anyway with the added bonus of not letting the advertisers collect metadata on you without your permission. Blocking ads is comparable to not looking at billboards, but even better!

  • Apathy@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 days ago

    I made a comment about proton VPN being a L data miner and now we see the CEO bootlicking trump. Funny how that turned out

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
    32·
    3 days ago

    Replying to someone claiming NFTs are a scam:

    One small but important correction. NFTs are not a scam, it’s an amazing technology that has the potential to revolutionize lots of stuff, that became popular when people used it for stupid shit.

    Saying NFT is a scam because people have used it to scam others is like saying phones are a scam because people call others over the phone to scam them.

    NFTs are essentially a decentralized token. This means that they can be used to represent anything you might want to represent with a token, e.g. ownership of a physical object such as a car or a house; ownership of a digital asset, such as a website or game; some predetermined amount of something, similar to a stock or bonds; etc. The fact that some people used it to mean ownership of random pictures and people thought buying random pictures on the internet for a ridiculous amount of money was a good idea tells you more about people than about the technology.

  • sgibson5150@slrpnk.net
    91·
    3 days ago

    I corrected a commenter who clearly hadn’t read the article the post was based on. 22 up/31 down. I was obviously a Russian bot, you see. XD

    Did you read the article? Biden made many of Trump’s tarrifs permanent and Harris, while critical of Trump’s tarrifs, hasn’t put forth her own plan or disowned the Biden strategy.

    Edit: Fucksake, Lemmy. It says this in the article. I said nothing positive or negative about either candidate or their positions on tarrifs. 😆