But have you tried more cowbell?

Hi, mod here.

In the future, please avoid sharing links from news aggregators. Sharing from the original source helps community health by providing transparency, and allows others to avoid reposting the same article.

One of the weirdest facts I know is that “pter” means wing and “helico” means spiral, so a wing that moves in a helix is a helico-pter. That’s the root, not heli-copter.

This is a user, not a community. They are downvoting across communities, including stalking people across communities to downvote all of their posts and comments, following communities just to downvote every post and comment, etc.

They downvote over 99% of the posts they see. Why seek out content you don’t like? It’s mildly infuriating. To me at least.

How you have voted for others

When I was a kid, we had whole educational units on this. Like with a special demonstration clock and worksheets and everything.

How are kids supposed to learn if schools don’t teach them?

On other people’s stuff

Thanks. Fixed.

Mastodon reminds me when I do that, but I should remember on Lemmy too.

Personally, I agree (we would never do this in a large community for the record). But yes, there are people who think that they can “kill” a small community with downvotes because they don’t like the topic.

The sad thing is, it’s true. In a community where most posts have under 5 or so votes, one person coming in and systematically downvoting every post will keep people from seeing it who may be interested. If someone doesn’t like a topic, they can block the community, but when they take steps to prevent others from seeing it, that’s toxic. It’s bad for the health of the platform.

Nothing against downvoting in general, but some people are extremely toxic about it. I don’t get the point.

Please don’t do a witch hunt - it was censored for a reason. Sorry I didn’t do it thoroughly enough.

Oh weird

You have to select “user” and enter the format exactly as shown. There are some servers that don’t work though. Yours should.

Kittypop

“My eyes are up here.”

It turns out that people are better at most things than non-people.

“Get back in here ya jerk… I can’t afford this right now.”

Topologically, people are toroids.

Yes, we are still trading on the same five acorns that were originally used as currency. /s

Yes, most of the wealth here is stolen, but the statement that wealth is zero-sum is absurdly inaccurate.

Somehow I feel like they will be fine when the bottom drops out and ordinary people will be the ones who pay.

Why are our memories so bad? There are still people alive who lost friends to polio.