Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn’t see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?
I only ever downvote rudeness, active spam, or something I think is off-topic. I explain off-topic downvotes but don’t feel DOWNLOAD MY SCAM APP TODAY http://wwe.scamlink.fakesite.com/ deserves an explanation and just needs to be pushed down in visibility + reported. I am too wary of getting into an online fight with the person I downvoted and reported for hurling slurs or being a snarky sarcastic namecalling ass to someone being genuine lest they start coming after me too, so I don’t reply to them and explain “I downvoted you because I think you’re being unnecessarily unkind.” Half the time I do actually try to reply in a way that I think gently calls them out and tries to defuse, only to delete immediately after replying in fear of conflict—that’s like 75% of my deleted comments.
Of course caveats apply, I remember
and sealioning is a thing, but I see way more snark towards people engaging in good faith than I see sealions or awful people who actually deserve it. (And part of why I delete, in case I think it’s unnecessary rudeness but it is actually a Hitler tone policing the anti-Hitler guy type situation and I just don’t realize it.)
but cannot findthis image with an angry person capslocking in understandable disagreement with Hitler saying “but that’s just my civil opinion that we should gas all the jews, i do not get why you’re so emotional,”In the examples that you mentioned, I do agree. I suppose I should have added a caveat like I “usually” take the initiative to comment, except where it seems obvious so the response is not necessary or helpful for anyone.
I also want to do people the courtesy of explaining my disagreement but I also do not want to be that “reasons I downvoted you” Reddit copypasta
the pasta
I just downvoted your comment.
FAQ
What does this mean?
The amount of karma (points) on your comment and Reddit account has decreased by one.
Why did you do this?
There are several reasons I may deem a comment to be unworthy of positive or neutral karma. These include, but are not limited to:
Rudeness towards other Redditors, Spreading incorrect information, Sarcasm not correctly flagged with a /s.
Am I banned from the Reddit?
No - not yet. But you should refrain from making comments like this in the future. Otherwise I will be forced to issue an additional downvote, which may put your commenting and posting privileges in jeopardy.
I don’t believe my comment deserved a downvote. Can you un-downvote it?
Sure, mistakes happen. But only in exceedingly rare circumstances will I undo a downvote. If you would like to issue an appeal, shoot me a private message explaining what I got wrong. I tend to respond to Reddit PMs within several minutes. Do note, however, that over 99.9% of downvote appeals are rejected, and yours is likely no exception.
How can I prevent this from happening in the future?
Accept the downvote and move on. But learn from this mistake: your behavior will not be tolerated on Reddit.com. I will continue to issue downvotes until you improve your conduct. Remember: Reddit is privilege, not a right.
Also I just realized I am replying to a 2-year-old thread! I got here via searching for a new search engine, left it in my open tabs, came back to it, and totally forgot it was an old thread. Thanks for engaging with me anyways!
Upvoting!
Wow, somehow I never came across that copypasta. Perhaps that’s a good thing, for the sake of my sanity?:-P