I'm not flexing but I still have the ability to downvote posts/comments.

just means you don't take it upon you to suffer for the greater good of all

so selfish

I can too, I never used the "not for me" option. My theory is that that button smashing doesn't work by default since it's not in api or it will disable your down vote functionallity if you abuse it. If course you use the "not for me" button, freedom is speech b*ch

Forgot there was a down vote button, there's nothing really worth using it for and I wouldn't be bothered with childish button behaviour. Sometimes I hit like, sometimes I don't.

I really sleep well at night! :D

There is a lot of spammers lately. I can downvote the spam messages and they disappear from my threads, not sure if its just me that can’t see them once downvoted or they disappear for everyone else as well.

@PappyHans it just needs two downvotes to disappear everywhere

@SidTheITGuy Btw, this is a major flex. Even I won't flex like that. You should be ashamed of yourself

@retoor hm I can downvote a spam post and it would disappear for me with just my -1 vote. But who knows. Not sure what’s with the surge of SPAM posts lately. Very annoying

@bazmd spam posts

@PappyHans yeah, that's only for you I guess. -2 is for everyone as I stated above

@netikras the amount of spam must be huge since everyone downvotes but they keep showing up.

Edit: 11 messages today. You can see them in the day overview

@netikras Everyone must do a great job down voting the spam bots, because by the time I get here they're gone. But I'll keep that in mind.

Who you gonna call?

SPAMBUSTERS!!

@bazmd I always see them, but I check very often, it's a kinda habit. I do it everytime when smoking at least and that's around every two hour or so

Now they're 13 of them. How do they invent all those texts? They did it before AI. And for texts like that you have to self host I guess

I try to trigger people to lose downvote privileges. I need to try harder I guess.

@PappyHans if you downvote it'll be for you only but if 2 down vote it'll be for everyone and the post gets hidden unless you have a direct link to it or go to the profile of the poster

for comments I guess they just plain disappear

for downvoting comments if it's only you I don't think it hides it until it gets -2 and then the comment I think gets deleted? cuz you can't find it on profiles or anything. unsure if the user who got downvoted get permanent negative score either (if user A upvotes user B, and then user A deletes their account, used B's total score then decreases by all the user A's upvotes for them. similarly if you delete your own comments and they had upvotes your score will go down)

I see accounts with negative total score so being downvoted must degrade your score in some way, but downvotes are harder to track to know how that system works

I guess I could get a downvoted comment and try to test but I'm lazy

@Demolishun lensflare and tosensei made me lose mine

I don't think I've ever downvoted you. you just post cheesy jokes, which is hardly going to be aggravating. then again I guess some people can't handle humour which is pretty wild and surprising. cheesy humour is too much for them lmao? how? 🤣

@jestdotty I joke about trolling. I just don't think I have what it takes to be an edge lord. ostream is the king of that.

I've gotten downvoted on some occasions but I think by this point people got used to me. people just dislike my opinions or sometimes really get triggered by something I say so target me for a while (and interestingly enough seem to not be cognizant of why they're exactly mad at me which is kind of funny), but generally most humans tire themselves out eventually and everything goes back to peaceful

@Demolishun yeah you're just super harmless

ostream is just confused and throws his confusion on others. he wants validation / help for his confusion I think

@jestdotty people really like to rile ostream up.

@Demolishun pretty sure he knows it, so he's participating in it willfully

@jestdotty I do not really get downvoted but it is depressing to see if you have zero upvotes and the one below you has five :P If i only cared about upvotes, i would've said way different stuff

@retoor I think the trick is to still say the same stuff but get up voted for it. if the content changes then you're cheating!

@jestdotty I hope that the 'ostream didn't delete thimself' meme one day will be funny again, I just keep posting

@Demolishun I try to trigger people to lose downvote privileges. I need to try harder I guess.

You could never trigger me enough, because it's me who does the triggering.

I have managed to get JestDotty to quit the matrix group and get Nanos to delete himself from both matrix and devRant.

It takes a special build to achieve that. Perhaps I could teach you how to do that. Interested?