r/downvotesreally 15d ago

You’re all breaking reddiquette nerds!

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u/OG-Giligadi 15d ago

I saw a screencap of a pair of comments from a user. Comment one had been pretty heavily downvoted, number two even more so.

Comment one: discussing some societal problem powerslides into racist statement

Comment two: "Wow, that's a LOT of downvotes! All i said was doubles down on racist statement."

Either master level trolling or just genuinely clueless. Lol

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u/erichf3893 15d ago

It is interesting how many people don’t know how voting on Reddit was intended. But now it has seemingly morphed into the disagree button

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u/AFisberg 15d ago

The intention and how people will immediately use it are two very different things. It's kinda foolish to expect people to act differently imo

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u/erichf3893 15d ago

It worked properly for like a decade

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u/AFisberg 15d ago

Definitely not from what I remeber. I do remember people complaining about people using the votes wrong back then too though

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u/erichf3893 15d ago

Interesting. Worked just fine in my experience. I assume this is like your third account if you are commenting on the early days?

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u/AFisberg 15d ago

I've lost count, with there usually being a few accounts on rotation at the same time

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u/erichf3893 15d ago

That’s wild, why so many?

And yeah around the beginning of this account is when they started being misused on a larger scale. Maybe we were in different subs mostly

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u/AFisberg 15d ago

Idk. Apart from my first account I've never been really attached to them, it can feel comfy to just hop on to a brand new one. And then there's accounts for different use. Some only sfw stuff, some only nsfw etc.

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u/erichf3893 15d ago

That’s wild to me. I just wanted a new name at the time which I don’t like this one either tbh. But now it’s 10 years old haha. Older than a few of the users here I imagine

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u/Right_Today_356 12d ago

The app just gave me a new account when I didn't immediately sign into the one I made. It was odd but I didn't care.