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Revenge downvoting (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BaldProphet@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

Is it considered acceptable to "revenge downvote" by going to a user's profile and downvoting all their posts or comments? I've seen some of this behavior going on and I don't think it reflects very well on the Fediverse or Kbin.

EDIT: Honestly didn't expect this post, of all posts, to be the one to open me up to hate. Thought fedizens were friendlier than that.

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[-] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Well now, have you considered alot of your posts actually suck?

A quick glance and I see several innocuous posts of your which have not been downvoted and the ones with multiple downvotes (whereon you might well feel brigaded) you're engaging in apologia for fascism.

[-] BaldProphet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not getting into that here, but if you reread my article, you'll see that I'm talking about revenge downvoting by going to someone's profile and downvoting unrelated articles and comments in a petty act of revenge. No offense, but you sound kind of like the kind of people who have been doing this to me (and, I'm sure, others).

[-] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

I don't care enough to downvote you.
I do know the phenomenon you're talking about, and I'm merely suggesting people actually don't like your posts.
Surely if people were "out to get you" you wouldn't have so many posts with 0 downvotes.

If you are being "brigade downvoted", people are only doing it to the posts where you're being a douche.

[-] SlowNPC@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Meh, your profile tells me

  1. people don't want to hear about the Mormon Church

  2. people are touchy af about fascism, people standing near fascists, and people who argue that what's happening in Florida isn't technically fascist.

  3. people who downvoted you because of 1 and 2 didn't down vote your whole comment history.

[-] Hello_there@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Reddit actually blocked this. Down voting from the profile page had no effect. Only down votes on the actual post or comments mattered.

[-] BaldProphet@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The way Kbin works, it is trivial to get revenge after an argument by just going to their profile and downvoting them into oblivion. I don't think reputation points matter nearly as much here, but it is annoying.

[-] roofuskit@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Or it's just that people don't like you using this platform to promote your cult.

[-] Hello_there@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

If you don't like a particular religion for some reason, I get that. But if someone is posting stuff about their religion to a sub about their religion, how can you get mad about that?

[-] RuckusTraveler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Is baldness a cult?

[-] BaldProphet@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago
[-] McBinary@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Pointing out the inflammatory reasons that you're being downvoted does not make someone a bigot. Maybe it's time to self reflect and reevaluate why these people find those posts abhorrent. It's pretty clear to most of us just looking through your post history at what has been downvoted the most.

[-] keeb420@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Also the rep point system is bugged right now. Upvotes don't count but boosts count as upvotes. Downvotes work fine.

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