Looks like Europe not getting away from the US anytime soon
Guys, downvotes are not for cases where you don’t like the news being reported. They’re for when the actual quality of reporting is poor, or when the topic doesn’t belong in the Community where it’s being posted, or other such technical matters like the same news being reposted.
I can’t see anything obviously wrong with the ABC’s reporting in this case, and this is pretty obviously “overseas news”, with an Aussie bent (it mentions Australia 7 times, and Albanese once), so it definitely belongs.
Downvotes are for whatever you want them to be for.
What a dumb take. If you downvote a post that clearly belongs in a community just because you don’t like the news, all you’re doing is preventing others from learning about it. You’re not sending an anti-Trump message.
What i do with my downvotes is my own agenda. Same with your downvotes and your agenda.
Complaining about downvotes just earns more downvotes. Trying to police other peoples harmless behavior on the internet just because you don’t like it is just going to give you a headache.
Who says people are sending an anti trump message? Maybe they don’t like op. Maybe they don’t like the source. Maybe they always downvotes at midnight. You’ll never know because the internet is capricious and weird.
Oh, and if you’re downvoting because “they don’t like op”, that’s definitely not a valid use of the downvote. Use the block function.
If you don’t like the source, you’re right, that’s valid. But given it’s the ABC we’re talking about here, I very much doubt that’s it for enough people that this post got down to -3.
You know that downvotes aren’t harmless, right? Your downvotes affect everyone.
Not everyone. We have them turned off for a reason!
Are the downvotes in the room with you right now?
Pixels on a screen denoting disagreement are harmless and if you feel otherwise maybe you should go touch grass to improve your mental health.
The point of the voting system is to decide which posts are seen by more or fewer people.
If you downvote a perfectly good post, you’re stopping people from seeing it. You cannot try to justify that by pretending it’s harmless.
That might be your reason for the voting system. That doesn’t make it everyone else’s reason.
A downvote doesn’t stop people from seeing a post. They just have to scroll farther. Also your definition of “a perfectly good post” might not be the same as mine or someone else’s.
