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I have a comment on my profile where I express some observations about the cyber truck that weren't expressly negative and it was down voted to hell.
Maybe not so many trolls, but there's a lot of pretentiousness.
Just like with Reddit, there are a lot of people who use the downvote button if they just disagree, which isn't really the intent. So you're likely to get downvotes for any unpopular subjective opinion.
Yeah I generally agree with that.
I find that people really put a lot of stock into how much they like or dislike something subjectively rather than looking at it from an objective perspective.
But if a post gets tons of downvotes, it's not necessarily or even often because people don't like the opinion. It's usually because it was pure opinion stated as a fact or in hostile language or in unreadable writing or the user was otherwise behaving like an asshole.
Yeah, there's for sure a lot of that
Go look at what the dude said about the cyber truck, the downvotes are totally unwarranted
People just hate Musk and want to see him become irrelevant.
This exact thing led me to mostly lurk rather than post