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.
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.