Ok I hate that you are beeing down voted. The downvote button is not the "I disagree" button, but more like a "this does not help the discussion" button. And your point was fair and your opinion. If you agree or not does not matter. That's the point of a discussion for fucks sake.

Pls don't get to that reddit point of downvoting. The downvote behavior was so nice here the first few weeks, after I joined, but got so much worse after the last very big reddit migration wave.

[–] mcc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

It's sad isn't it, how predictable people are.

[–] Dinodicchellathicc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree the original commenter doesn't deserve to be downvoted. If you disagree then leave a comment. Mass downvoting will build an echo chamber a la reddit

[–] Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a little snippet from the documentation of lemmy.ml and lemmy.world. I understand it as meaning that the downvote is actually there to express a negative opinion about something you don't like.

Lemmy uses a voting system to sort post listings. On the left side of each post there are up and down arrows, which let you upvote or downvote it. You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them. Or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen. Each post receives a score which is the number of upvotes minus number of downvotes.