What sort of post or comment gets you downvoted the most? Especially if you don’t think it’s bad behavior in the first place, or don’t care. Does not have to be on Lemmy, but we are here… One of the good things about Lemmy IMO is that it’s small enough to see the posts that are unpopular. If you do “Top Day” on most channels, you cash reach the bottom, see what people here don’t like.
As far as comments, attempting to rebut the person who is telling me my post sucks, is what gets me into negative numbers most often. The OP is going to voite it down, of course, and nobody else cares, usually.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Deviating from the group narrative is the major one.

    The content of your post doesn’t really matter if you’re making the right sounding noises. As long as you somehow indicate that you’re “one of us” then you’re probably safe. If you talk shit about Facebook/AI/Elon Musk/Capitalism/Police etc. it doesn’t really matter if what you’re saying is literally true. If you’re speaking to the right audience you’re going to get pats on the back nevertheless. Conversely when someone like me then comes and points out that no, Elon Musk actually did not turn off Starlink in Crimea to prevent the Ukrainian attack I’m guranteed to get downvoted for it despite the fact that I’m correct.

    I’m guessing the two mains reasons people downvote comments like that are cognitive dissonance; refusal to accept new information that goes against your prior beliefs and alternatively the false assumption that if someone is in any way defending an unpopular person/idea they then must be one of the “other” and thus we can dissmiss what they say without even considering it.

    • waterbogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      OmiGod yes, I’ve had this a few times. Pointing out facts, supported with a bunch of links to studies. Or even just pointing out the patently obvious - if it goes against the groupthink in a particular thread or community, it’ll get downvoted, here and on reddit too

      Most downvotes I’ve had here was for pointing out that shoplifting results in increased prices for the paying customers