I'll downvote in an art share community if:

• The art is politically trolling or otherwise deliberately offensive.

• An artist is spamming there with too many posts in a short time.

• The artist is self promoting too hard in the title/comments. (Or includes any sort of 'clickbait'.)

• The art is really, really, really bad. Like, "I've seen toddlers draw on the wall with crayon more skillfully than this" kind of bad.

The punishment for Atheists is finding out that there actually is a sexually repressed racist homophobic genocidal infanticidal pestilential old white man who is in charge and will never ever die and get the hell out of the way.

A truly horrific fate

In Jerboa, and I assume other apps, it is easy to downvote by accident while scrolling.

I still hate when a post gets a downvote and no other response, but ya gotta let it go or go mad.

Yes, I do have such a recent post.

Downvotes are literally one of the most, if not most, useless feature in the Fediverse. People who worry about them are ... well I'll be nice and just say that they are The Lord's Special Lambs.

But also, voting IS an art, for art's sake. And down votes are one of the many colors I use when painting an expression of a mood I wish to convey. So if I'm going to hell for my art, I'll gladly do so with pride.

Because your taste in music is bad and you should feel bad!

One person down voted a teto cover of a Spanish song I posted and I shall be forever sad

Slightly off topic, but im in school for massage therapy, and just took my midterm exam which involves giving massage to classmates while the teacher watches. During practice, we check in with questions like "is the pressure okay?" And the response is either "its great" "it's too much" or "I'd like more pressure". During the exam, I overheard other students saying "I'd like more pressure" and I couldn't help thinking to myself - unless someone is hurting you and you need them to lighten up, the only thing you should be saying right now while the proctor is grading is "that's perfect pressure!" Like c'mon now, do your peers a solid and say it's good if it's good, worry about the feedback details during practice time.

Message them and ask why.

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Let them do what they want, I can't wait for them to blow up half of the universe and themselves at the same time.