r/memes • u/Mechablast17121 Flair Loading.... • 13h ago

I'm fully prepared!

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u/kai_the_kiwi Professional Dumbass 13h ago

I once made a comment about something and got mass downvoted while someone else made the exact comment a few hours later but in slightly different words and he got a lot of upvotes

Its just reddit being reddit

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u/Aggravating-Stay-713 13h ago

Same situation and even the sentences were literally same.

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u/Diacetyl-Morphin 12h ago

It's the way, when you get a few downvotes, you'll get many more over time. People will just hit the same button. Even more with upvotes, as your post comes up on the top with the normal sort on Reddit, so people see it first and they tend to further upvote it.

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u/TaroLong8817 12h ago

Yep it's why I delete my comments when they get -4 karma before they get butt r*ped with more downvotes, and sometimes repost them with the same text

When i repost them they many times end up with positive karma

Funny how that works

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u/Drudgework 11h ago

I never delete comments because sometimes someone will respond to them weeks later and I get to have an argument.

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u/Lolislime 10h ago

Having an argument in a place you know a lot about and them talking shit is satisfying even if you are left with -500 karma. I swear these guys just downvote for the sake of it and not because you're wrong

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u/Drudgework 2h ago

Sometimes they downvote because realizing they are wrong offends them.

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u/Mechablast17121 Flair Loading.... 10h ago

Or read their argument like watching a movie

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u/RexDeDeus 6h ago

I don't delete my comments cause it's just imaginary points on the internet.

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u/privacy-is-cool 7h ago

It’s not just Reddit. This is the entire Internet. Everything you posted is a complete crapshoot. There’s 8 billion people on the planet. I think like three or 4 billion of them are on the Internet somewhere at sometime.

You could literally post I love Hitler and if the right people see it at the right time you’ll get 1000 votes

You could do the exact same thing but say I love Gandhi and get the exact opposite reaction and get 1000 or more down vote.

The entire Internet is a complete crapshoot about who sees your post and when it has nothing to do with how correct or otherwise you are or or not this is why up-and-down votes are irrelevant, and don’t matter to people who have a brain

(I mean outside of recognizing that it sucks that no one gets to see your comment because they have that stupid hide feature, but that’s a separate issue)

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u/Euphoric_Pickle_772 12h ago

actual example of hivemind behaviour because the first 2-3 up or downs decide your entire comment's fate

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u/EdanChaosgamer 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 12h ago

You had a downvote when I saw this, now you have another because I don‘t think independently.

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u/Anonymous_1069Z 9h ago

I swear, a lot of users on Reddit just have the herd mentality. It's like 2-3 random guys Downvote and then most people go like "Ah, a comment being downvoted, must be terrible comment, I must do it too" and boom, you have more Downvotes than the total number of Upvotes in the comment section combined.

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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 3h ago

HEY! That is not…not true!

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u/Bright-Account1621 5h ago

Reddit really said the exact same opinion can be genius or garbage depending on who posts it

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u/mystirc 1h ago

I made a correct comment explaining something with sources and I got downvoted to hell.

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u/emily_orren 10h ago

Exact same logic but in your situation the roulette wheel landed on the wrong person first

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u/JohnDiggle21 12h ago

I got downvoted for literally just explaining something, not taking either side.

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u/_Fappyness_ 12h ago

You didnt pick a side, which defaults you to being wrong no matter your explanation. If you arent radically agreeing with the opinion of everyone and try being rational, you automatically get mass downvoted.

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u/otirk 8h ago

"You're either with me or against me"

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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 3h ago

The fact that this comment isn’t downvoted to oblivion is ironic

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u/FlyAltruistic9322 13h ago

Thats the first rule of reddit

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u/Not_So_Calm 11h ago

Just stop caring about downvotes. Those numbers don't mean anything

https://giphy.com/gifs/Vm33RYqG5wqgnGv2yu

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u/Daymo741 Professional Dumbass 8h ago

Pretty much, OP must still be in their first or second year on reddit if they think the reddit hive mind cares about right or wrong.

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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 3h ago

Or nuance

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u/HJSDGCE 12h ago

I got banned from a subreddit even though my comment was popular and positively upvoted.

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u/Mechablast17121 Flair Loading.... 12h ago

How long did you got banned?

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u/HJSDGCE 12h ago

Permanently.

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u/el_doggo69 12h ago

there's this subreddit for scale models i joined

if you mention "Tamiya" in your comment. someone downvotes your comment for some reason. its also easy to spot because you'll suddenly see "0" in your comment considering that hobby and community is a bit niche

for context Tamiya is a company that makes great scale models and is a recommended brand to get.

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u/Imam_jax 9h ago

In reddit downvoters are like: ok so this comment got like 2 or 3 downvotes.well my upvote won't save it now so what the heck let's just go with the flow and that's where most of "downvotes to oblivion" comes from

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u/violettravelnotes 13h ago

All that effort just to take an arrow to the face

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u/CrazedRaven01 10h ago

A comment getting down voted only shows how upset it made some people. It doesn't change the veracity of the statement

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u/Intelligent_Box_8247 12h ago

sometimes you just have to take punches for the team..

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u/justmanbearpig 11h ago

imagine having such a sad life that you actually care about up-/downvotes

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u/wizzyone 9h ago

Herd mentality

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u/DetectiveObjective00 8h ago

Downvoters: Take that for having a valid opinion.

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u/kumark00 8h ago

Are most redditors frustrated soul or something?

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u/Bright-Account1621 5h ago

The confidence is unmatched, but I already know something is about to go horribly wrong

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u/simonbleu 1h ago

I've seen the exact same comment downvoted and upvoted, heavily in both cases in more posts that I can count.

People is silly, for lack of a better euphemism

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u/ShadowKuroyami 13m ago

Welcome to the internet where ego is all that matters also this is reddit your opinion is either "my opinion" or the wrong one. Still remember getting downvoted for making a post about cosmetics in a game, wording could have been better but still got bodied for an opinion that wasn't the subs opinion.

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u/RelChan2_0 (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ 11h ago

I tend to ask a lot of questions because I'm not chronically online and I get downvoted.

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u/NordicNjorn 13h ago

Yup… if it’s longer then like 4 sentences, people just ignore and downvote. (I simply skip cause 9 times out of ten I just don’t care enough about what’s being talked about I’m just mindlessly scrolling lol)

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u/FrostyDog-34 13h ago

Impressive, you made a point and provided evidence.

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u/NordicNjorn 13h ago

that gave me a good chuckle lol thank you

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u/Mechablast17121 Flair Loading.... 13h ago

And, you got downvoted!

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u/NordicNjorn 13h ago

It was expected. Reddit is a fickle beast.

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u/potato_lettuce 13h ago

Well you're just lying, that's not something I've seen. Your long comments might get downvoted cause they have nothing to do with the topic, just false or dont match the subs opinion, but almost never for length

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u/NordicNjorn 13h ago

ah yes, cause only your experience matters and no one else's.

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u/Rare_Arm_5975 11h ago

I just dont know what it is about that button i didnt even read ur comment and i am already wanting to downvote u.(Upvoted)

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u/ImThe1Wh0 8h ago

Right?! This guy was asking for advice on here and everyone was just telling him, "no" or "don't." That was it. I provided my response and said, "don't do it because of THESE personal examples and experiences" and then my comment was torn to shreds because suddenly I just suck at breathing and "it must be a skill issue"

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u/Total_Volume_1096 5h ago

Downvote this comment right now.

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u/StillGalaxy99 13h ago edited 8h ago

Source?

Damn y'all really missed the joke

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u/Mechablast17121 Flair Loading.... 13h ago

What source? I used mematic to make the meme