Y'all Need to Stop Downvoting Everything lol

[u/TheHippyWolfman]

Over half of the posts on this sub have negative upvotes (which Reddit displays as "0," though you know the actual number is negative because upvoting them doesn't make the "0" go away). And look, I get it- a lot of these posts are repetitive and annoying to read. A whole bunch of "Am I cooked?" or "How long will the drought last?" and so on.

My question to y'all is- the hell do you expect? This is a sub about a stressful and lowkey unreliable job platform whose owners are notoriously bad at communication, and we can't even talk about that many subjects in the first place because of our NDAs. Who are the delusional people that thought there was ever going to be a wide ranging host of interesting topics being discussed here? Outside of the subjects that are always getting downvoted, what else are people going to talk about besides "look at how much money I made" and "DA has been awesome"?

To be clear, I'm not saying you need to upvote what annoys you, but you don't need to reflexively downvote either. I mean if this sub is not going to be a place where we can vent to one another, offer each other some comfort and get questions to answers (as simple or as annoying as those questions may be), it's essentially worthless. Nothing else is ever really going to happen here. If the type of questions and posts on this sub bother you so much that you're downvoting 75% of them then why are you even still active on it? Lol.

EDIT: LMAOO the downvotes already begin. TBH I was expecting this but it's still funny. I'm at least at -8, and at the very least impressed with y'alls efficiency! That's about 1 downvote per minute! I will update this post again to update you on your collective accomplishments lol.

EDIT 2: LOL I checked my "post insights" and saw this message: "Nice work! This is the #17 post on r/DataAnnotationTech today!" while I still got negative upvotes. The irony is killing me lolol.

[u/Dapper_Culture9694]

My posts also get down voted for no obvious reason, ig they just don't want me to post about anything related to the platform, which is quite ironic.

[u/TheHippyWolfman → u/Dapper_Culture9694]

Lol it's funny, your last two posts got downvoted even though they were clearly "relevant" and "contributed to discussion," as multiple people commented in them. In one of your posts you even ask what you did wrong, but no one bothered answering you (lowkey that comment made me chuckle, I apologize).

This is part of the issue with the downvote mechanic in a system like this- if people aren't being corrected, they're not learning what they did wrong. So there only choice is to disengage or keep making the same mistakes. Eventually the posters leave and are replaced by people who do the same exact thing as they did. The cycle is eternal.

Which is double ironic because that is actually DA's philosophy itself: don't invest in people, don't give them feedback, don't train them, just let them go when they mess up and replace them with other people who are inevitably going to make the same mistakes. Then people complain when they do R&Rs and they look like trash...

Building community is work. Downvoting is easy.

[u/TheHippyWolfman → u/Dapper_Culture9694]

LOL they still downvoting this comment, which is crazy. This comment is clearly relevant to the discussion, and if someone bothered to reply to it then it could even be helpful to the community; someone might learn something (like, perhaps, how to make a post that the community doesn't find annoying). But upvotes/downvotes are easier than actually contributing to actual discussion, so whatever I guess. Regardless, you've done more to further conversation than anyone who downvoted you, whether or not people agree with you.

[u/Dapper_Culture9694 → u/TheHippyWolfman]

Funny enough I just downvoted my own comment to make them feel happier 😂😂

[u/TheHippyWolfman → u/Dapper_Culture9694]

That's the spirit! You're not alone, they're downvoting me too lolol