Yeah. I remember I got heavily downvoted on reddit once when I made an Office reference, which seemed weird to me since reddit usually loves the Office, but then I only slowly realized in context the reference inadvertently seemed really racist which was very much not my intention so I deleted it.
I leave them up, but edit to say what I think about it now. I value transparency and the willingness to change your mind when presented with new facts or apologize for being wrong, and I want to set an example for others to see. I've been an ass and said things I regret later, and I'll do it again I'm sure.
One of the most downvoted posts I remember ever seeing was someone saying “But wasn’t he a psedophile and necrophile?” when Jimmy Saville died. That one turned around very quickly when all the stories came out in the media. Proof that sometimes you should stick to what you know is right.
Kbin gives me the ability to see up/downvotes, and this is usually what I've used it for in the rare cases I've cared to check. To satisfy your curiosity, it's usually accounts who do absolutely fuck all except downvote seemingly at random. Never comment. Sometimes they've never even upvoted anything.
Twice only has it been someone I recognized and knew to be generally a normal human user. One was and still is a fan of melodrama, so they were probably having One Of Those Days. The other, I'm still a little confused because I knew them to be of above average intelligence, but I think I have to chalk that up to fat thumbs.
Sorry if I'm ruining the fun. Can confirm the only haters your hypothetical flower has are absolute weirdos, though, and questionably human.
I think North Korea is an unpleasant place to be, Taiwan isn't part of the PRC, and Stalin was a murderous dick. Makes me unpopular on Lemmy, but I gotta be me.
On Reddit I feel like people would just look for heavily downvoted comments to tag in and add their two cents, which could easily mean your inbox exploding, so I could understand deleting just to stop the flood, but generally I don't worry too much about deleting old comments just because people didn't agree with me.
On reddit the only thing that matters is the first few votes. The content of your comment doesn't matter, people will pile on the upvotes or downvotes because agreeing with the group gives you a dopamine rush
Probably right. But tbh, whenever I see this, my assumption is either the user is in their 60s and unused to typing, or more likely they're typing in their non-native language and using the typical rules of their native one. And I'd feel shitty making fun of either.
It would be a better internet if that were everyone's first assumption, because I turn out to be correct way more often than not. A quick stalk through their profile proves it to be the second one — punctuation is handled with an extra space in French.
While this isn't supposed to be true of Canadian french, which is what they've claimed, I could see that still leaking into speech somehow and I'm kinda curious how it happened. Any québécois, how rigidly are English spacing rules adhered to?
The problems with hydrogen have never been with using it as a fuel source. The first problem is storage/transport of the fuel and the second is what happens to a vehicle with a hydrogen fuel tank when it's ruptured in an accident?
I can see a train making sense - a lot more space for storage and cooling, plus the risk of an accident is very low. But I haven't seen anything about these issues being addressed in motor vehicles.
Hydrogen takes a lot of energy to extract, transport, and store. It makes it orders of magnitude less efficient than simply using that energy to charge a battery directly.
I’ve been known to delete posts that get one or two downvotes, makes me realize my comment wasn’t that helpful or interesting. If one of them gets a lot, it stays. I’m happy to be wrong or unpopular, at least the comment added to the discourse :)
Downvotes on Lemmy are just an indicator that you are unlikely to succeed as a socialist politician at the national level. Short of that, I would ignore their value.