• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    i think it’s just herd mentality. People see downvotes and then go “yeah downvote bad, me grug, me downvote comment also”

    the amount of posts i saw about some negative thing that had comments that were like “i almost downvoted this” was concerning.

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      5 months ago

      Often there are multiple ways to interpret a poster’s intentions, and if you see a heavily downvoted comment you will automatically assume the worst.

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        5 months ago

        yup, but it should also come as no surprise to most people with more than about, 3 iq. That the votes on a post mean almost nothing other than “what other people thought about it” because other people are known to have very reasonable and normal opinions en masse.