In Reddit, years ago, I was writing about protecting endangered whales. Apparently it was quite the pro whaling community that day. Never knew I could get more than -100 downvotes, but I far surpassed that
Had to skim through a bit, but it appears to be this one:
https://lemmy.world/comment/9834772
I suggested that people could use throwaway temporary email accounts if they didn't want to risk using their real email to register for Sony's annoying forced PSN registration for their PC games.
I've shared a few hot takes here and there on Lemmy so I am surprised that this one ended up being my lowest (so far).
I don't know if I was downvoted for angering the Sony fans by notion that there could be security concerns with PSN, or people who disliked the suggestion that they didn't have to use their real emails to still register for an account, or both.
My most downvoted comment is me trolling during the US elections. My comment says that I won't vote, without giving the context of being unable to vote due to not being an US citizen. But it would be obvious to those paying attention to my instance. https://feddit.org/comment/2935779
In all my days, the two most hated comments I dropped were:
Explaining that traveling specific speeds is not inherently less safe, but that context of conditions and location heavily change how safe we feel.
Attempting to give someone a free trip across the country so that I could have a body to assign one of her three cats to, since it was just after covid and finding any way to get a cat across the country was strangely difficult or exceptionally expensive. Apparently I'm a terrible person for not including a place to stay, or a return trip, or anything? Like.. I'm trying to save money getting a cat across the country, why would I then spend more money for someone I literally don't know? It was more of a 'please help get cat from a to b, I'll pay for it' Ended up dragging my wife with me for the third person because people were being weird and angry about it.
I don't see any way of ordering my comments by vote totals so no idea.
I was third in a chain of "Nice"s. I think about my crimes every day.
I'm pretty sure my bickering about the election. I was very unpopular during that period. Now I'm just regular unpopular. 👍🏾
I mistook a VLC update for enshittification. Can't remember what the update was about because I deleted the comment lol
Suggesting that the cold-blooded murder of an unarmed man is morally indefensible. We all know what I'm talking about.
That's definitely a terrible take but there's no reason to downvote it. I don't think you're trolling. You just have a different opinion and that's fine.
I was on a Ford reddit forum. OP was pissed that their timing belt (chain?) broke, and was convinced that the repair shop she had previously went to had sabotaged her motor. I commented that these things do in fact break, and that the shop might not have been the culprit. Holy Downvotes Batman.
Agreeing that blocking ads is a form of piracy
What's your reasoning?
Nothing is ever "free", most of the stuff on the internet is delivered to you with the "payment" of serving you ads. It's totally within your right to ignore the ads on your screen as long as it is served out it's OK, but if you stop ads from ever coming through you've just gotten access to the stuff you wanted and no "payment" (ad) has been served.
I consider that to be a form of piracy. I'm not saying it's always unethical, I would say having a browser adblocker is necessary because of all the bad garbage out there. I run UBlock Origin and PiHole on my devices so I can not see any ads at all and I consider that piracy in my case.
I know alot of people would disagree, piracy may not be the right word but I think it's important to think about it.
Blocking ads is a security necessity, not piracy.
I'm sure you are trying to equate blocking of ads to cutting off their income stream or something, but it isn't anything like that. It is just not displaying something that would be ignored anyway with the added bonus of not letting the advertisers collect metadata on you without your permission. Blocking ads is comparable to not looking at billboards, but even better!
I posted a meme of Trump giving the viewer the double fingers with "Cry Harder" as a caption.
It was intended to be sarcastic, as in NOT Pro-Trump, and a cursory view of that account's posting history would support that view.
The crowd went berserk and that account was banned from the Political Memes, News, and asklemmy.....
dang... I hate when this happens, you post something, and you think its abvious satire. And then nobody gets it and you get insulted by your own peers.
It was a post about how Google had been asked to take down links to websites selling black market hormonal transition drugs and I suggested that no one should be buy them from shady sources like that in the first place as those compounds are important enough to not just buy whatever you can find as a personal attempt to fix body dysphoria.
People just wanted to be upset.
Though I have also been recently banned from upliftingnews for not being uplifted enough about basic stuff and had a mod tell me I don't belong in their communities so I'm surprised anyone agrees with me ever apparently.
My worst one was expressing doubt about all information we get regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict because it is definitely being used as a wedge to divide Americans and make us easier to manipulate. Context: the IDF found Super Evil Battle Plans on dead Hamas soldiers, instructing them to kill civilians. Because they need to be reminded that that's their mission I guess.
My second worst one was saying that we shouldn't euthanize every pit bull. Context: a pit bull attacked someone, and everyone in the thread thought the right move was to euthanize the whole breed.
My third worst one was saying that the Fahrenheit temperature scale is more useful for average people than Celsius. Context: shitpost about fahrenheit being a bad temperature scale
For the first one, yeah there's a lot of missinformation going around and a very heavily politicized debate. On the one had Israel response is disproportionate and inhumane, on the other hand if you go back further enough they were attacked first (the day after being formed, so no chance of that attack being retaliation for something). At the end of the day I think both sides are at fault and supporting either is morally wrong, and claiming that you need to support one of them is a false dichotomy.
I've had similar arguments, people who hate pitbulls for some reason fail to see the stupidity in their argument. Last time I had this discussion the person was using an argument that would also be applicable to eliminating blacks in the USA, i.e. statistically pitbulls are disproportionately dangerous (low population vs high number of incidents). And refused to acknowledge that correlation does not imply causation, so the only possible explanation for that disparity was pitbulls are dangerous, not that assholes who mistreat their dogs and use them to fight prefer pitbulls (despite me showing studies concluding that race is not a good predictor for violence).
On this one I have to disagree, you think it's more useful because it's what you're used to. For me that have never used it it's a weird scale that has no bearing on anything. I've heard the argument of human comfort, but I'm comfortable from 59 to 77, and my wife prefers 73 to 86. I consider it cold below 50 and hot above 86. I have only gotten to 0 once in my life, but got temperatures above 100 every summer. If it was indeed a scale for human comfort 0 would be what most people consider comfortable, i.e. 21C or 70F, or the temperature where you can start to freeze to death (which I'm not sure but I think it's around 5C or 41F), not an arbitrary low temperature that most of the world never gets to.
I reacted to a comment to a meme about parents having the power and the right to withhold what their children's privileges relating to some trauma I've got.
The comment I replied to went:
We take away what each kid values the most. Works well. If they complain or don’t stop whatever got them in trouble we start adding days.
In hindsight, taking the context, it's kinda reasonable, but I was triggered by the “what each kid values the most” remembering a painful part of my childhood, which lead me to be way less open to my mother.
Wouldn't that end up with a kid who values nothing, not even their own life?
My mom used a similar technique to get me to do what she wants me to do, and I ended up, well, the way I am right now. I hide a lot of things from her, and if necessary, only pretend to show interest in things I don't give a damn about just to have a semblance of a personality. Worse, even if I die right after this comment, I wouldn't mind one bit.
Admittedly, that last part is totally unnecessary.
That response became my most controversial and downvoted for understandable reasons.
For context I asked if there was a way to disable "tips and tricks" (aka ads) in the lock screen in Windows without activating Windows. I was told to use NAS (Microsoft Activation Scripts, that can activate windows) in github but I replied with "without activating Windows"
There was a Reddit post of a WWII picture of a blown up US artillery piece where the round detonated in the chamber and killed the crew.
I replied something like "Looks like they got a taste of their own medicine".
While it still to this day gives me a chuckle, the reception was rather cold.
I am not sure. A mod already deleted it and I don’t care enough to look it up. Probably some dumb shit I wrote while being on autopilot.
More just that Bethesda is the biggest maker of Triple A RPGs and they're finally updating the creation engine in a significant way. That said, to my knowledge, its still one of the more technically advanced RPGs (even if it doesn't do much with that tech) and could hopefully at least work as a proof of concept to more ambitious developers.
I made the mistake of going against the circlejerk and saying Starfield was relatively advanced tech by RPG standards. I was called toxic for even daring to suggest it was trying to innovate.
The post was a news story about a sports arena calling a kid to the front and saying Santa got him a new PS5 but they didn't end up giving him one.
A top comment claimed this is legally considered theft. I replied saying it's shitty but it's not legally theft. Got 91 downvotes for that.
All my other downvoted comments come from posting in video game communities about how I don't think video games need to exist forever.
Replying to someone claiming NFTs are a scam:
One small but important correction. NFTs are not a scam, it's an amazing technology that has the potential to revolutionize lots of stuff, that became popular when people used it for stupid shit.
Saying NFT is a scam because people have used it to scam others is like saying phones are a scam because people call others over the phone to scam them.
NFTs are essentially a decentralized token. This means that they can be used to represent anything you might want to represent with a token, e.g. ownership of a physical object such as a car or a house; ownership of a digital asset, such as a website or game; some predetermined amount of something, similar to a stock or bonds; etc. The fact that some people used it to mean ownership of random pictures and people thought buying random pictures on the internet for a ridiculous amount of money was a good idea tells you more about people than about the technology.
I advocated for private schools in a casual conversations community, that's the one that has the highest ratio of down votes so that's all I know
I've been to a private school, and it sucked. this is just my (German) experience though. so I would've probably down voted you as well.
Don't know actually. mbin doesn't support sorting comments by... points?
My response to "capitalism is terrorism" was "Go move to Cuba then".
I don't know if this exists in different cultures, but in Czechia we often respond to stupid things with something equally or more stupid to show we don't take it seriously.
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