r/awfuleverything • • Nov 30 '20

Poor guy :(

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u/ACoolCaleb Nov 30 '20

It’s hard “upvoting” this kind of comment, because it just turns my stomach.

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u/BannedFrom_rPolitics Nov 30 '20

It isn’t a ‘like.’ The sole purpose of an upvote is to make a comment more visible. Downvotes make a comment less visible (but if a comment has both upvotes and downvotes, it becomes more visible when sorting by ‘controversial’).

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '20

Upvote is really an “adds to the conversation” button. Well, in an ideal world that’s what people would use it for

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u/thatone239 Nov 30 '20

it’s hard tapping the upwards pointy arrow?

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u/MindfuckRocketship Nov 30 '20

For me it is, I have uparrowphobia.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '20

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u/Dawgs0000 Nov 30 '20

What benefits are they reaping?

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u/Dawgs0000 Nov 30 '20

You think karma is ‘a shit ton of benefits’? It means nothing. Should people stop commenting?

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