• Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I don’t have a downvote button. I disabled seeing downvotes as a whole as they were massively misused and not super helpful.

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      3 days ago

      I downvoted your comment because it’s doesn’t really add anything to the conversation, it’s just aggressive virtue signalling.

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        3 days ago

        I disagree as it’s still on topic and to do with the down vote button, but that’s your merit, I can’t see it ^^’

        from my POV it only re-enforces my point that it’s misused more than not and not a reliable metric to use, and the option to just not use them as a whole is there.

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        3 days ago

        Did he edit the post? I don’t see the aggression, and being virtuous and expressing it isn’t something to criticise, lol, it’s not like they’re some hypocritical politician (not that I saw that here either). But if you were just making a joke, my bad!

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          3 days ago

          Aggressive is modifying “virtue signaling”. I guess I could have been more clear by adding an “ly” to make it clear that aggressive was an adverb.

          But, honestly in my experience there is ALWAYS someone finding some new way to understand your comment so that they have something to argue with. I was both making a joke AND making a point. Complicated, I know.

          And it is something to criticize: OP asked about “X”, commenter replied about NOT “X”.

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      3 days ago

      I must downvote once for every 5/10 replies I make. If I really disagree with you, why wouldn’t I publicly show how wrong you are? I can’t let my peers be misguided when I can avoid it!