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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's that momentum. Once you start going negative, you get pile driven even lower

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Only if you are really stupid or controversial. In a popular thread you can turn the votes around with subsequent posts or a clarifying edit.

[–] Shady_Shiroe 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I once asked a question, everyone thought I made a bad joke, down voted, I edited it to include that it was genuine curiosity, got down voted even harder and called stupid, my noddle still doesn't compute the situation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Sometimes you start with the person you replied to down voting you because they think you disagreed with them, then others read your comment and up vote it

[–] Demdaru 1 points 6 months ago

Nope. That's rare. It happens here more often than on reddit but it's still rare. If you're positive karma, most folk who don't agree with you will just pass by or answer. If you are negative, straight to downvote it is.

[–] Tixanou 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A negative downvote is an upvote :v

[–] Shady_Shiroe 13 points 6 months ago

Reminds me of a poster that said "!False is funny, because it is true"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

We are always one negative vote away from oblivion

[–] AgentGrimstone 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That one poster brave enough to speak and defend you and single handedly turns the tide.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 5 points 6 months ago

Or even better, when they call out the loonies too and go down with you like the violin Titanic scene

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Movie is Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

[–] Crack0n7uesday 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I completely forgot Dave Chappelle is in that movie until recently.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A Jew, in England!?

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't one downvote plus one upvote be 1 again

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Sure.

The meme's about being at -1 though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I think you automatically upvote your own posts/replies

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Who cares about down votes? I'd care if I didn't express my view properly, but sometimes people just disagree

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Hide votes unless you're keen on worrying about stupid manipulative internet points

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Who cares what intermet strangers think about your comments?

[–] m13 13 points 6 months ago

hehe minus one 😈

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why are you downvoting it??

[–] Pharmacokinetics 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I brought you back to zero. Now hug me.... please :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I returned it to zero after someone moved it off

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I can see what you are doing. Come here my little (or big, doesn't matter) internet person with a sense of humor