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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Must be this one, but the downvotes were part of the game in that thread so I guess it doesn't really count. Other than that I've never gotten more than like 3 downvotes on a post.

[–] Nibodhika 1 points 1 day ago

Replying to someone claiming NFTs are a scam:

One small but important correction. NFTs are not a scam, it's an amazing technology that has the potential to revolutionize lots of stuff, that became popular when people used it for stupid shit.

Saying NFT is a scam because people have used it to scam others is like saying phones are a scam because people call others over the phone to scam them.

NFTs are essentially a decentralized token. This means that they can be used to represent anything you might want to represent with a token, e.g. ownership of a physical object such as a car or a house; ownership of a digital asset, such as a website or game; some predetermined amount of something, similar to a stock or bonds; etc. The fact that some people used it to mean ownership of random pictures and people thought buying random pictures on the internet for a ridiculous amount of money was a good idea tells you more about people than about the technology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This comment

The post was a news story about a sports arena calling a kid to the front and saying Santa got him a new PS5 but they didn't end up giving him one.

A top comment claimed this is legally considered theft. I replied saying it's shitty but it's not legally theft. Got 91 downvotes for that.

All my other downvoted comments come from posting in video game communities about how I don't think video games need to exist forever.

[–] RedIce25 1 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Agreeing that blocking ads is a form of piracy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Saying: "Google says stalking is a crime in 50 US states." gave me 29 downvotes. The question was: "Would it be legal to crowdfund a licensed private detective to investigate a public figure and publish their results publicly?"

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

One has -45 and that was when I told someone, who I since blocked, that I wasn't going to look up something I knowingly talked about because of such thing existing. Which was knowing about Steam allowing people in the EU to re-sell their games. And they replied to my post being all like "SOURCE?" like as if it was some big fucking debate. Like dude, I wouldn't be saying shit if I knew what I was mentioning was a pure lie. I knew what I was talking about and people always think they're being coy by asking for sources and shit. I'm not here to hold your hand, the ball was in your court.

A lot of the other massively downvoted comments of mine, were just me responding to some of the low-life bastards that frequent some instances that come at me with their lame ass responses. Whom I also blocked because I'm not going to entertain their shit as long as they want me to. They just don't like people talking back to them.

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[–] JubilantJaguar -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Suggesting that the cold-blooded murder of an unarmed man is morally indefensible. We all know what I'm talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's definitely a terrible take but there's no reason to downvote it. I don't think you're trolling. You just have a different opinion and that's fine.

[–] JubilantJaguar 2 points 1 day ago

What a world to live in where being against first-degree murder is a "terrible take"! But I agree about opinions. Personally I don't even touch the downvote button.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'll never understand why people give a shit about votes on a form of social media that is clearly pointless. This place is a timepassing entertainment vehicle full of trolling and silliness. The points don't matter. Why care?

Up there with people who waste their time browsing other users history so they can remark about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I get your point, but for me, I don't take anything here on the internet serious. so down votes for me, express I posted something, and several people disliked it. To me, this is funny. I just wanted to hear what aponions others had, which they were hated for...

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