Sure, there are always outliers and you can correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s just the overall impression I have.

(I wasn’t sure if !asklemmy@lemmy.world or this community would fit better for this kind of question, but I assume it fits here.)

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    353·
    29 days ago

    Downvotes can’t actually hurt you.

    Personally, I’m fine with saying unpopular things and getting downvoted for it. Mods removing a disallowed viewpoint is something different.

      • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        28 days ago

        Just remember that the first person to say the world went around the sun got downvoted into oblivion… but it is factually accurate and a giant leap towards out current understanding of the physical realm. I’m happy for people to disagree with my views. Fuck, I probably disagreed with half of them, thirty years ago.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      32·
      29 days ago

      Mods removing a disallowed viewpoint is something different.

      They will only do that if the opinion actually resonates lol

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
        71·
        29 days ago

        Haha yes, that’s usually the issue. I talked down below about getting banned on slrpnk because of some things I was saying. The comment thread with all the highly-upvoted replies getting removed by the mod, and the downvoted stuff intact, is hilarious to me:

        https://slrpnk.net/post/14823401/11895951

        The same mod also had a habit of arguing with people, while removing their comments but leaving his own side of the argument intact. He’s still a moderator there. In my opinion slrpnk needs to spend less time talking about anarchism and more time embodying anarchism.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          92·
          29 days ago

          Removed Comment I am gratified by the rate of downvotes on this. Greta Thunberg would, I think, be disappointed and angry that anyone would take what she said as a justification for ways to help get Trump elected. Let me highlight the very clearly written part that you seem to have missed: > It is probably Impossible to overestimate the consequences this specific election will have for the world and for the future of humanity. > > There is no doubt that one of the candidates — Trump — is way more dangerous than the other. If you want real positive change, listen to Greta and fight for change outside the system. If you want third parties, support RCV and proportional representation, to make them viable. If you want the end of the fucking world, then don’t vote, or vote for spoiler candidates within the current system that makes them unelectable. Edit: Formatting by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat

          reason: Electoralism, liberalism

          well you did kinda invade their safe space with common sense ideas, shit lord hehe

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
            7·
            29 days ago

            “We’re anarchists.”

            “Cool. Here’s an urgent problem I see for the world that I think we should work on.”

            “SHIT COCK GET OUT DISALLOWED We don’t say that here. You’re receiving a gentle ban, to think about what you’ve done. Be better.”

            • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
              31·
              29 days ago

              That’s the current modding situation across any community focused on working class politics… as if people running them are not interested in helping the peasants.

              Why would anyone act like that on social media… for free at that