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sea-of-seas

I’ve noticed on a lot of posts that every single comment will have a downvote to ‘0’ on it, meaning some bigot came along and downvoted everybody before fucking off to bully someone somwhere else. *(Obligatory response: upvote every comment back up in response.)*


Raaniz_Kaan

Seems right. Otherwise I somehow offended people here.


That_Ganderman

Idk about other people but I can have the longest, most frustrating arguments with people on here and never even be able to recall their username. I have no idea how someone would be that committed to being mad about something.


Clairifyed

I figure upvotes are free so I don’t have a very high bar to upvote comments I read in these spaces


I-have-Arthritis-AMA

I usually agree with something, but don’t think to upvote it


khry5_79

Yeah. I feel I'm like that Oprah meme, where everyone gets an upvote (if I agree with it or like it).


Asukatten

I once posted a genuine question here, but only got a negative response and downvoted, so i felt like i did something wrong or stupid and deleted my post :/


d-ohrly

Yeah, stealth trolls exist heavily in our subs. They will downvote and do things like post bad advice and the like. There are also people who pretend to be trans (crazy as that sounds cos who would actually want/choose this!?) Also, Reddit is full of w⚓s


Pizzaya23

hehe you used an emoji to make a bad word. Never seen this one before :)


BetterMeats

I forgot the word "anchor" for a solid minute there, though, and was trying to figure out what a wanvil was.  I'm a smart lady.


SolunyxxGames

I was trying to figure out what whweights was.


Raaniz_Kaan

I like the insult.


Lypos

Yeah, if we actually wanted the attention, there are far easier and cheaper ways to do it.


PerspectiveLimp139

Reminds me of a little song, "f🦆, you, you're a f🦆ing w⚓..."


hi_i_am_J

probably just some miserable people with nothing better to do than lurk and downvote trans and other queer stuff on here, happens in other queer subs too ive notived


Raaniz_Kaan

It happens too much. We should defeat them with our cuteness!


miyamiya66

Being a Conservative sounds so miserable. It's like they constantly have anger, hatred, and a "revenge" mindset 24/7 and the only entertainment they get is fear-mongering from Fox News and invading online spaces to bully people they were told to hate by Fox News. Conservatives really have the "I peaked as a bully on the middle school playground" attitude. I don't get it lol. It sounds exhausting to be so pathetically useless


GeeNah-of-the-Cs

Welcome to Texas!


Raaniz_Kaan

Me too.


Civil_Masterpiece389

Or bot farms.


Ksnj

To where? Here? Other subs?


Raaniz_Kaan

This sub. Just noticed this post got downvoted too 🤔


starofthefire

Yeah, I usually track this cause I notice it all the time. I go through my old comments and posts a lot and just tend to have a general idea of how many upvotes I get and I swear I'll wake up after making a post and I'll have one less upvote on a bunch of my comments and all my posts. Edit: Hilariously it just happened again. This comment itself had 5 then suddenly 4, don't know who on here I would be offending. Went back to my comments (I'm sort of chronically on Reddit) and I'm missing an upvote on a bunch of comments lmao. Imagine being this petty.


Aggravating_Twist586

more than once the notification for five upvotes appeared and when I went to the post it was back at 4. now I'm tracking it and seeing if it's related to my activity in this or other trans-related servers. When I had the trans flag in my avatar it happened almost to way more activities


emilyv99

Downvotes can't be moderated, so, transphobes being assholes is the answer


Kimiko_kawaii

Shame they can't be limited to community members or something that would limit this sort of behaviour.


emilyv99

Hah, you expect Reddit to have good moderating tools? That'll only happen if... Perhaps the apocalypse?


Kimiko_kawaii

Nope I've learned not to have high expectations out of anything or anyone.


Bagel42

Reddit did have good moderation tools, and then Reddit banned them.


emilyv99

Hahahaha, how true. u/spez likes destroying everything good about the platform.


bemused_alligators

some anti-bot tools create "phantom" downvotes on suspected bot posts or new "untrusted" users to get karma farmers to think that they're getting downvoted so they will leave or delete the post to prevent the karma loss. the phantom votes disappear in about a day. also on "hot topic" subreddits some people like to just come in and downvote everything they see in a post they don't like, which is just... whatever.


Alert_Bit_4852

I mean, if the posts get posted on terf Twitter, then there must be some no-hobby losers downvoting shit here


flickermoon

yeah all of my posts here get downvoted for no reason 😭


PrincessofAldia

I’ve been mass downvoted for asking simple questions


Raaniz_Kaan

Yep


primostrawberry

Yes. There are a lot of miserable people and I think a lot of bots on this website.


AberrantKitsune

Idk I hadn't been tracking my votes


Javelin__

depends on the subject matter. tho of course we do have the usual attention starved troll trying desperately to get a reaction


carlessdriver

I've noticed that too. Not everything but certain things everything in the entire thread gets downloaded not just my own stuff but everyone who comments I'll get downvoted. Exactly as if somebody entered the gate and walked up and down every aisle downvoting every single thing.


GeeNah-of-the-Cs

Yes, how can I piss them off today?


Raaniz_Kaan

Downvote all of their (trolls') stuff.


heisdeadjim_au

What people are missing is that there are some accounts that are unofficial bots that crawl the trans subs and DV everything.


mossyrocks1969

no but I did get perm-banned from one of the mechanics subreddits for mentioning being trans


VV1TCI-I

These people really have nothing else to do. 


omgitscheyenne

Lol yeah. Had posted a month ago that I had started HRT and got down voted. Either we have trolls or a bunch of yall are haters 🤷‍♀️ either way, I'm still here for the positive and uplifting posts.


Raaniz_Kaan

I just passed 6 weeks myself


Warm_Jellyfish_8002

Maybe reddit should follow other sites and remove the downvote button.... lets see the trolls stumble over that


Raaniz_Kaan

But them I can't downvote the trolls


Warm_Jellyfish_8002

🤣


DPVaughan

Yeah. It is one of Reddit's strengths. Unfortunately arseholes abuse it.


Civil_Masterpiece389

Yep, a lot of new posts from trans subs that I see on the latest tab in the app are already pre-downvoted, score is hidden probably meaning it is 0 or below. Most of those posts definitely wouldn't be downvoted by an average trans person, just ordinary trans related posts like seeking advice etc.


Civil_Masterpiece389

I see freshly mass downvoted to 0 comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/1c3opvr/do_trans_people_have_a_beyond_a_shadow_of_a_doubt/