Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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To be completely honest I probably wouldn't click on it at all because it's not really something I have any kind of knowledge about. I guess if I was upset that Microsoft was spying on people I would probably upvote the article since it's alerting me about something important.
That's not really addressing anything about my reply to your original question though. You stated people were "using downvotes wrong", but you gave only one very specific example which you keep bringing up.
I tried to give a thoughtful response to your question where I gave pretty broad examples about how voting on posts is pretty objective and could be effected by a variety of factors that you never even mentioned.
You, for some reason, seem determined to ignore everything I've said and keep coming back to this specific issue with Microsoft. It makes it seem like you weren't really interested in having a conversation about the validity of up/downvoting at all which is frustrating because I feel like I made some valid points about it.
Thus I'm downvoting your reply because you keep replying without adding anything useful to the conversation.
Perhaps you should have posted in a community about I.T. or internet security, or even just current events instead?
☆º°˚☆ Have a ηice ϑay ☆º°˚☆
Sorry that I picked one particular example. There are zillions of examples out there. Figured I'd stick to one recent and relevant topic as the example.
Same thoughts apply to other posts as well. What about the Baltimore bridge collapse? Did you tap like or dislike?
I don't like that it happened, but I do like when proper information is shared.
So again, back to my original question.. How do you use those buttons?..
Anyways, have a good day.
I've told you how I use them several times and you keep ignoring everything I say, so I'm not sure what else to tell you at this point.
You clearly came here with some kind of agenda, possibly because someone downvoted a post you made somewhere else. I'm sorry someone didn't like the link you posted in another community, but I don't think there's a specific "correct" answer that covers every contingency of why people downvote "legitimate" news articles.
Opinions are a nebulous topic that can be influenced by a variety of factors. Maybe the person downvoted you because they didn't understand the article? Or maybe they just didn't like the tone you used when you posted about it? Maybe they've seen 10 other people post it already and are sick of hearing about it? Maybe you got downvoted by a troll who just wants to see you get upset about it? Maybe it was someone who works for Microsoft? Maybe government agents really are trying to suppress your free speech? Maybe someone was just having a bad day and decided to take it out on you?
People can vote however they want. Unless there are specific rules about how to use up/downvotes that could somehow actually be enforced, then people can downvote anything they feel like, and unless they tell you why then you'll just never know.
Of course people can vote however they want. But in some cases, many people will have a knee jerk reaction to downvote actual facts that most everyone should know and should be shared, which just makes it less likely to be seen by others.
It has absolutely nothing to do with how anyone has voted on any of my comments or silly posts, I'm referring to actual factual news posts.