Nah, the types of people who do that don’t have the balls to comment. For them, the dopamine rush comes from pushing a button and moving on. They love that it doesn’t take any time for them to try to affect the conversation.

See, they don’t wanna be hard, the just don’t want YOU to be heard if they disagree with you.

I prefer negative comments to serial downvoters. Serial downvoters are cowards.

Nah, the people who live to follow people around and downvote are in too deep. Easy to ban them now, so easy peasy to deal with them. That’s what makes them so mad! lol

PTB. It’s .ml after all!

How so? Are you defending serial downvoters?

Nothing would deteriorate a discussion faster than people just calling other people morons and adding nothing more.

Pretty much all of Lemmy lately.

I love the look of the robot in this. Except for the fence parts, this is a great fucking pic!

I know. I’ve been the target of your serial downvoting before. But at the time I didn’t know how to ban for it. lol

I managed to discover the serial downvoters on my old lemm.ee community and when I banned them (about 5 of them?) it had a huge impact.

I noticed same thing. I’m actually shocked that so many on Lemmy are still surprised at how many serial downvoters we have.

Great fucking reply and well-thought out!

And more and more I think it’s better to completely get rid of the downvote button.

Yep! I wish all Lemmy instances would get rid of the downvote button. So many drive-by serial downvoters would have to find a different hobby.

Those mods should just migrate their communities to an instance without downvoted if they’re so sensitive about them

But if the downvoter isn’t on the same instance, then the downvotes still count and everyone else can see them.

Let’s say I’m on an instance that doesn’t allow downvoting. I have a community dedicated to pretty hairless cats. If you’re on a different instance, one that allows downvotes, you can still downvote all my posts.

I’ll never see your downvotes, but everyone else who isn’t on my same non-downvoting instance will, and that might hurt interaction in the community because people may see all the downvotes and decide not to visit.

Plus, the reality is that I’m an egotistical prick who sometimes likes to see exactly how much and how many people hate me. Hint: It’s a lot :)

Regarding downvotes, can someone explain to me why it’s bad or wrong? I’ve posted my drawings before and they were downvoted.

Now imagine you had your own community centered around your art. And instead of someone just not liking your work, there’s this one person who goes out of their way to downvote everything you post, no matter what it is. He doesn’t block your community. He actually waits around just to downvote your stuff.

Now let’s say you have another community. Not art-related at all. It’s about pears. That’s right, just pears. Poems about pears, pictures of pears, pear facts. Suddenly, every single post gets downvoted.

And guess what? It’s the same guy.

Sounds weird, right? Like what kind of person follows you around the platform just to downvote everything?

Let’s take it a step further. You look up the guy’s profile and realize he’s never posted anything. No comments. Nothing. Out of curiosity, you check his voting history and it turns out all he does on Lemmy is downvote every new post he sees.

Creepy, right? But also way more common than you’d think. That’s why you keep seeing this topic pop up.

Everything I described has happened to me. Sometimes all of it, sometimes just parts. But I’ve definitely run into people on Lemmy who downvote just because they think it’s funny. For me, some people just downvote my shit because of my name and the fact they don’t like me. And they have been very open about it.

One guy even said about me, “I can’t help it. I see Universal Monk’s name. I downvote.”

Lemmy seems to attract folks who are a little more extreme in their obsessive behavior than other platforms. Sure, a few users have been wrongly banned here and there for downvoting. But the number of serial downvoters here is ridiculous, especially the extreme political types or the hardcore anti-AI crowd.

I had someone downvote some stories I posted the other day. In a pattern that seemed to imply he didn’t actually read them. But he let me know that it’s because he didn’t like the cover art or the story subject (Trump, hamsters, vampire nuns with strap-ons, and nutraloaf).

That kind of downvoting is fine and what the button is for. But it’s not like he went in and downvoted everything.

And since he didn’t like my writing style, he blocked the community so he doesn’t have to see my posts there (I post a lot). That’s how Lemmy should work.

And of course I didn’t ban him; he didn’t do anything wrong.

Are you implying that I’m a fascist because I think doxxing social security numbers is bad for a Lemmy instance? That’s a strange take.

Also, it looks like most people are downvoting OP’s post and agreeing that he deserved it. Are they fascist too?!

The truly extreme action of releasing publicly available information

So if it’s so publicly available, then no reason to post it on Lemmy. Also, someone mentioned the post had Social Security numbers. I don’t care what Lemmy says or how much Lemmy hates people, I’ll always think posting people’s info like that is uncool.

Doxxing is never cool, friend. And can get dbzer0 into some uncomfortable legal noise.

When you gonna post your manifesto, friend?

Bruh, what the fuck? YDI

I’ve definitely been scanning the news lately, and totally expecting to see something like, “And he released his manifesto to a little-known social forum called Lemmy…” about one of you guys.

If I were a new up and coming law enforcment agent, I’d totally be checking out Lemmy. lol

If you wanna go extreme and shit, cool, but do it somewhere else, please. Lemmy ain’t a safe place for you to be doxxing people. If dbzer0 gets shut down because of people like you doing shit like this, imma be pissed.

What the fuck were you thinking and what was your end goal here?

Thanks for this. It’s a great read. I love how his name is Wagenius! Same as me, but I’m not related. Not that I know of anyway. I just sent my mom a text asking her if we are related to this dude! lmao

PTB

Dude, leave the guy alone about his living expenses. You don’t know anything about the guys living situation. Calling him a liar just because the numbers seem low to you, is out of line, even for you.

WTF is going on with you lately?! You were always kind of a jerk IMHO, but damn, lately you just seem to be accusing people everywhere of the most strange shit. You just accused a dude of not living in the U.S. because you don’t like or understand his credit card charges?!

Not only that, but you only brought the very off-topic up because you went to go check his post history about unrelated shit. The fuck?!

You need to go touch grass, friend.

Thanks for being a neutral and logical in this thing.

I think with Philpthebucket, he’s just letting his annoyance with me overtake the logic he usually has. I’ve seen past posts of his where he’s showing timestamps, logins, receipts etc to backup his point. But in this particular issue w me, he seems to be letting his feelings take over rather than his usual logic.

Most of his talk about me lately is just “Because of course Universal Monk is…” sorta statements. Which isn’t really a good standard. If we’re going to use his logic that I’m involved in something just because I’m commenting about a subject in a thread talking about the subject, then he’s involved in it too. And you. And everyone who replies to a thread.

I kinda tried to follow the issues that he’s reporting, but it’s all over the place and he’s naming so many people. I just couldn’t follow it all. I have no clue what the actual frustration is. Is he for the anti-ai people or against them? Like what is he mad about?

I know I sometimes I give you shit about your takes, but you’re a pretty stand-up guy. I still disagree with a lot of your opinions about me, but fuck all, you stay neutral more often than not, so I can respect that and I respect you. (most of the time, haha)

just told me UniversalMonk did nothing wrong

Bro, I love you, but you never miss an opportunity to bring my name up in your posts. I ain’t got nothing to do with whatever it is you’re going on about, friend. And by the way, I didn’t do anything wrong, so whoever told you that is right!