Either nuance in a topic people are very black and white about or not being able to figure out how people can read things as the opposite of what I wrote.

Only happened a couple of times, no regrets.

Asking why you're getting downvoted is usually the easiest way to get downvotes.

But I often wish I would get a comment about downvotes. It's easy enough to see why I'm getting downvoted when I post stupid shit, but sometimes I feel like even the most uncontroversial post or comment will get at least one downvote. I want to know when I'm wrong, so I can learn!

Like, the other day there was a post getting downvoted to oblivion and nobody told OP anything. I commented my reason and OP actually seemed to be learning from that, edited the post and the downvotes stopped accumulating.

Anything slightly "feminist". You know, like pointing out that women do the majority of unpaid care work. Or saying it's not nice to objectify women. Or sometimes mentioning the word women will do it.

Anything that's true but people don't like.

Saying something centrist instead of left-wing. I feel like I'm left of center in most places, but right of center here. Stuff like "we should try to just have a well regulated capitalist system instead of going full on socialist, because as bad as capitalism is, socialism has been shown to be worse," would get me downvoted into oblivion.

Just talk about how you genuinely enjoy Microsoft Windows as an operating system.

AI isn't stealing your art. Text to image stable diffusion literally can't output a copy of your work.

And if you post your art online for free, you have no expectation of anyone not using your work to the extent that fair use allows. AI looking at your work for training is the same as a human looking at your work for inspiration.

Saying something positive about the United States, or something negative about CCP.

Asking for support with questions that others think are really easy to solve. Was a big problem on reddit as well.

When I reply to a comment with a laugh or what have you. I like them too know I laughed but since I'm not adding to the conversation I guess I'm getting voted down. I do it anyway.

Anything mentioning furry. Which is a shame, because I hoped the internet had outgrown such immaturity.

Although, looking through my history, apparently anything that criticizes Windows or AI, which is odd considering the demographics here.

Can I be honest? Religion. Anything related to it, somehow will get someone downvote me. Even if I just mention "God" or something. I get that I should "separate the church from the state" or I should be secular here or whatevs, and I respect that. It's not like every time I mention I force it down to everyone's throat!

Tbh I wanted to make a post that greet everyone on Lemmy that are doing Ramadhan fasting at first, but now I don't even feel like doing that. There's no point of posting it, I guess, if it got downvoted and no one wants to see it.

I guess this means that Lemmy isn't much different from Reddit...

Lately, basically saying that hamas did a big mistake and Gaza would be in a better situation now if they (hamas) were smarter human beings.

When tankies are on about nuking the west or genociding "white libruls" they tend to dogpile you for calling them fascist pigfuckers.

Can't tell if they like the attention or not because they always share a pic of a pig shitting on its own balls.

Is it an initiation right? a call to arms? is it a sexual advance?! We may never know.

Enjoying Apple products.

What sort of post or comment gets you downvoted the most?

Whenever I say that America is a continent instead of a country, and similar things.

Based on what I seen on Lemmy. Being an Conservative. Don't believe me. Go to a Conservative community and look at all the downvoted bombed posts.

EDIT "Based on what I seen on Lemmy". I'm talking about World and .ml.

Defending Imperial units to people who prefer metric.

Calling out IDF trolls.

Then they amass, obfuscate the thread with a billion replies, manufacturing "outrage" and then mass report the whole thing and bam I'm banned from world news.

Literally didn't utter a single insult. But since I was adamant and making the IDF troll feel uncomfortable with the evidence that Israel is willfully slaughtering children, I was "being disrespectful" and they banned me.

And Americans get very triggered when you note that there is literally no evidence against the notion that gun control works. They just jump in with shitty NRA perpetuated fallacies. Never a lick of data to support their bullshit. And there's a mountain of studies proving gun control works. It works as surely as antibiotics.

When I talk about driving my Tesla, while playing on my iPhone, and chugging Starbucks out of my custom Stanley. With my Windows laptop on the passenger side.

Opinions. People seem to hate opinions, whether they're provided with an explanation or not. Facts are also downvoted on a regular base.

Links to reddit

Mentioning downvotes. Or upvotes. The first rule of vote club is...

I've gotten downvoted for saying that full remote may not be the best for employers.

Posting pro-continuation of human existence when everybody else celebrating human extinction.

Any truth that upsets the hivemind.

Anything that doesn't suck the dick of the gun lobby. Easily that. Second place isn't even close. Even just asking "how?" when they claim their guns are the solutions will get you downvoted. They'll ask questions and then downvote you for answering.

And of course, it's only in threads on gun violence (when they're doing damage control) or about marginalized groups (when they're drumming up sales). Make the same comments under a post they haven't thought to brigade and they won't be even slightly unpopular.

Slagging China, pointing out hydrogen vehicles are a stupid idea, lots of snide responses

If someone is downvoted, someone else comments and gets upvoted, and you reply to the upvoted comment to defend the downvoted comment, you will get downvoted. Probably 95% of the time. It doesn't matter how right they are, or how mistaken the upvoted one is.

Especially getting into an argument with the upvoted one and hanging onto the downvoted one's side.

Also, being downvoted is likely to get you downvoted more. That contributes to the above effect.

Without pre-existing up/downvotes, the best way to get downvoted is to be needlessly aggressive without being funny.

To get a downvote from me, just try to use "of" as a verb. (E.g., "would of")!

Disagreeing with the consensus of the post and the comments. When the post has an agenda or a viewpoint that every comment so far heartily agrees with, I just move on and let the little echo chamber echo.

No one seems to know or care that "begging the question" means using circular logic and not that something has led to an event where people are begging to ask a question.

An example of properly begging the question could be, "does your mom know you're gay?" It's a yes or no question, but you can't answer it properly if you are straight. That's begging the question.

Whenever I point this out, I get down voted, which leads to the question: why y'all prefer being wrong?

Pointing out casual misogyny/sexism, it's extremely common on Lemmy (not surprising when the platform mostly only appealed to nerdy young dudes up until recently)