Remove downvoting?

[Miss Tera]

@PrIsMaTiSm

Unfortunately, I just witnessed you running head first into the concept of "biting the hand that feeds you" which is great. You failed to register i was one of your supporters with the problem you had like I clearly stated you were having until you messed up badly

So thank you graciously for biting my head off and treating me like your chew toy. You're not supposed to attack the people who either supported you or remotely tried to help. Otherwise no one will want to help you with anything at all. I'm actually not part of the problem that got you here and to verify I am remotely not associated with the bad apples you're talking about

So you can't really frame me as a bad person when i've been kind to the community and haven't done anything wrong as far as I can tell. Mind you, if i knew if i did something wrong then the admins and moderators would of already contacted me privately to inform me of said action and to discuss it in a civil manner. Therefore, I would be able to learn how to do better.

As a matter of fact, I welcome everyone to check my profile's post history to audit me very thoroughly to your hearts content, so please do. There is already evidence on my end I've always done my best to be a decent person, at the bare minimum. I say please and thank you, even going as far as admitting when I make a mistake. I do not intentionally cause conflict or drama, as I definitely know that's one way for basically everyone to despise you. Plus, I say it's no problem if no one can't help me with something or apologise for inconveniencing anyone.

So I don't know where you're getting all these claims from. It seems like you're accidentally projecting your faults onto other people. You do not want to accept the ramifications of your actions. You stir the pot by responding to anyone you think is an easy target you assume you can take on or carelessly feeding the trolls.

I will only clarify myself about my past input here once, and that's it. I'm happy to discuss things with other people and be open, obviously. I will no longer bother giving you any oppotunities to access any communication to me in any capacity, specifically you @PrIsMaTiSm , regardless of whether you understand or not. You are not treating me with any respect despite doing nothing wrong to you at any point of being a member of this site. I do not understand what i have ever done to you. So please respect my boundaries or I will do more than just block you. I will flag your account. I do not deserve to be treated like this at all and I won't stand here to take it like i'm your personal punching bag just because you're having a bad hair day to make yourself feel good

You genuinely need to step back from everything. It's very concerning that you're still persisting in trying to convince people that we should blindly believe you despite your microaggressions and the fact that you committed a few bad actions in public.

May you please kindly stop this behaviour towards everyone you respond to, as it is starting to turn into harassment. You are basically scaring new people away and preventing people from remotely having a say in regards to this topic. No one likes to be stalked and spammed by someone who lacks actual genuine maturity and respect like you do.

The fact is, you're claiming to me and talking to me like you're the bigger person and the adult here. That I'm just the little girl who doesn't understand anything and the adults are talking here so I should shut up. Is genuinely cringy and disgusting... you're doing a similar malicous tactic the trolls were doing to you (directly to me in public as well) so you're being a massive hypocrit. I am merely answering to your response because you're accusing me of being the culprit to your problems and I am using this oppotunity to review my past input to clear up a misunderstanding you're haivng about my post. That is all, didn't know when clarifying or helping someone understand my comments was prohibited. Yikes...

I and many other people will not tolerate being treated with disrespect. Some individuals have already made that quite clear to you. However, you seem to enjoy violating people's boundaries by pushing them, which is not a good look for your track record on the internet. What happens on the internet stays on the internet, creating a new account will no longer benefit you anyway if you keep doing the same negligent behaviour. Sooner or later, your only options will to be to get IP banned or delete your account if you keep going.

I think you're forgetting the fact that I was one of the few who initially supported you, so you cannot claim I'm being biased and supposedly hating you. I am not your blindly ignorant white knight here to protect you either, and neither is anyone else here. You lost my support for you for a very valid and appropriate reason. I do not owe you an apology for the mere concept of changing my mind due to your toxicitity. Humans are not like robots and don't always stick with one thing.

Mind you, I did point out in my post that flame wars and trolls do exist on social platforms. Just because I didn't say the ripper forums doesn't mean I said this site is exempt. However, the reason there were trolls and "cyberbullies" on your posts is because you kept responding to them. You kept feeding the trolls. That is one of the most common pieces of advice on the internet given to anyone. Do not feed the trolls no matter what. Most people are aware of that advice when it comes to interacting with people on the internet

You also failed the vibe check just then by spreading yourself into here too. Responding to me in a passive agressive manner right out the gate. I did not summon you here, nor did I explicitly request that you come here to challenge everyone like a gladiator. I did not add your name anywhere and kept the information pretty loose. So it was more flexible and broad. You basically just proved you go after anyone that mentions you even vaguely and anything to do with downvotes. So you're intentionally getting yourself involved in more mess; you're making your situation worse, and it's just depressing at this point.

The only reason this thread exists is partially due to your behaviour and other events not even remotely related to you. There isn't any point asking you to politely stop becuase other people have said a similar thing and you clearly ignored them. This is only causing more work for the admins and moderators than needed by trying to supervise more than 100+ users at a time on this forum. They can only do their best, but they always can't bend over backwards for one single user's demands. They might have better things to do than trying to manage every little thing that may not matter as much. They have to triage stuff to priortize whatever is more useful or important for the future of this site

I do not think you remotely have the skillset and mindset to handle either being a moderator or admin for any forum but thats okay. I don't have the privilege of time to spend more than a few hours keeping this site running smoothly

I already pointed out that humans are flawed. I stated this at the very end of my comment.

"Everyone is dumb sometimes, including me. Humans have always been very flawed and have never been perfect. If we were really perfect, we realistically wouldn't need history as an educational subject as much to avoid repeating the same mistakes someone in the past may have made."

I think you're misunderstanding what I was writing about, which doesn't surprise me at all, so I'm not disappointed. I can tell you didn't bother reading and analysing the text deeply enough, since you're supposedly claiming I'm being hostile. I have not written anything explicitly graphic or violent. For example, I haven't said anything along the lines of "OMG I HATE THIS PERSON, GO DIE" anywhere. I'm not spamming memes, calling users bad names, or being rude to anyone on this thread nor anywhere else on this platform.

May I point out that you have been doing this song and dance for a while now? The reason I said you were whining for a valid reason is that I also witnessed you went way past your boundaries and kept pushing it, making everyone very uncomfortable. You keep going in circles, and everyone is tired of seeing you pop up doing the same behaviour on repeat. If you genuinely didn't add more fuel to the fire by being rude to people attempting to support you and provoke the trolls then maybe people would've still supported you. Including myself

I did not specifically mean you were whining from the very start of your post, silly rabbit. I meant it as when you showed, via your actions, you refused to actually stop when people asked you to. It's about respecting someone's consent when they either tell you no or stop. Just because they explicitly did not say "please stop, you're making me uncomfortable" means they're giving you consent to keep going. This has nothing to do with the people giving you a hard time when you obliviously made this mess worse with your own hands

You haven't hardly earned my kindness or given me much reason to be polite to you either. Why? You already lost my respect for you even berfore you decided to respond to my input, and I do not want to help someone who's rude to everyone. People will treat you as you treat others. Especially if they witness you committing the wrong thing. I regret even supporting you so thanks for making me feel like shit

You don't want to improve or change. You have metaphorical horse blinders on, and the only solution to keeping them off is working on yourself. We can't take the horse blinders off your face for you. It's up to you to find a way to make a change for the better.

Please read my input from earlier, as I clearly stated.

"It is no longer a healthy and positive debate as soon as someone starts attempting to use insults on a personal level that are meant to degrade someone's self-esteem to make themselves feel superior or cause discord"

Despite this, I worded my past input very appropriately as best as I could without tagging or dragging people into something like you do. I took those upvotes away from your posts in those thread because you behaved inappropriately towards people, and I was completely out of the loop about your behaviour towards other people. Which i partly blame myself for not investigating earlier to verify the bigger picture. Which made me feel bad for even supporting you in the first place.

For you to respond to me like this only gives me a more valid reason to no longer support you; it verifies what some people have pointed out: you're acting badly to put it respectfully, and I'm not changing my mind because you made the mistake of making assumptions or being inappropriate towards me as well. That is hardly my problem or my responsibility. It is yours and no one else's.

I prefer we do not remove downvotes because I feel like that's just taking away everyone's ability to say what they see from their perspective, regardless of whether it's positive or negative. A forum is a place for people to chat with each other and share stuff with everyone in a nuetral environment bare minimum. Having downvotes may also partly help with security of the site if someone decided to post malicious files to the site to deliberately sabotage users who open it or have bad intentions to cause harm to the community for instance

The internet isn't meant to be a place that's strictly filled with toxic positivity, like a fantasy land. Criticism exists for a reason: so we, as humans, can learn from our mistakes and improve by learning how to do something differently to achieve a better result. We all receive criticism throughout our lives, IRL or online. So don't you dare think it's just you and play the victim card here.

It is not my concern or anyone else's if you choose to ignore the people who genuinely went out of their way to give you support and guidance. You don't want to accept a solution that isn't exactly what you want, word for word.

You may have the option to respond to people, but that doesn't mean you fully deserve the privilege of other people's time and energy to sit here for you as you please. Not only that, but you're forgetting the fact that you went as far as leaking information of a conversation with someone. That's not a very nice thing to do to anyone.

You violated someone's privacy and their trust in you by leaking information. It's pretty obvious based on the exchange that when that person found out what you did. The outcome you received from your actions is that its safe to say you're less likely to be considered to ever help improve the community in the future. So hats off to you by setting an example for everyone here on what NOT to do if you want to directly help staff and everyone else in future

There is a big difference between having something valid to say and being inappropriate in your behaviour. Just because someone says they're a good person does not always mean they're telling the truth. Actions speak louder than words. You clearly demonstrated that to a T.

Please go outside, go for a walk, and touch some grass. I do it all the time, and it helps me stay grounded in reality. Take a deep breath and relax. Please have a lovely week and take positive actions to help improve yourself. I will not be responding to you at all in the future, so don't bother attempting to leech more attention out of me and take me for granted. Thank you very much

[PrIsMaTiSm]

@LizEllie what the heck is this? Sorry, I don't want to read all that. This is getting absolutely ridiculous. If you want to rage, feel free to DM me (Nevermind, I cannot DM with negative rep).

[cloakanddagger]

@PrIsMaTiSm You have a point. There can be people out there trying to get you out of spite. I still believe of the freedom to vote but if the staff can find a safe way to keep the freedom with the hell storm, I would jump on the band wagon. The downvoting problem. sadly I cannot point out.

I read that last post where you are talking to the three, you need to be more considerate of others opinion despite you not liking the opinion. You have very vicious way of approaching an as you can see, many people see many faults to your demeanor. Take a small break and lurk in the shadows for a bit cause the worst thing you can is to keep fighting. some fights you cannot win.

[PrIsMaTiSm]

@shadowangelking That I cannot do. I fully respect your opinion, but if people here are going to continue to burn a witch at the stake, not for being wrong, but being 'inconsiderate' than I feel obligated to continue so others can see. Call it martyrdom if you wish, but what is happening to me, should not happen to others.

For the record, I would upvote your comment if I could.

[cloakanddagger]

@PrIsMaTiSm If you must, then do so. Make your stance and fight till the end! I must warn you though, I will gladly forgive you but will the others?

[PrIsMaTiSm]

@shadowangelking No idea, I would hope. The issue shouldn't really be about forgiveness, but tolerance.

I also know what you meant with your image, I just want to be doubly clear to others that I won't be worse, I just refuse to be bullied off a platform from people who don't think I should say what I do.

[Miss Tera]

Anyway, back to the matter at hand as we were discussing to stay on topic. Regardless if there were a few infamous events of people spamming in threads trying to take over the discussion like @PrIsMaTiSm for instance since they decided to join another topic thread again. In my perspective, they clearly demonstrated, they do not care about the health of the community and only themselves. This is just my theory, so unlike them. It's fine if not everyone agrees with me, and i've made that pretty obvious. We are all different people chatting together on this site, and so far i've actually enjoyed my experience here in the community.

Put it this way, if that specific individual cared about the community, they wouldn't be consistently causing grief to other users and putting people down that doesn't blindly side with them

They dismiss feedback from many people including me as well. They have not improved nor changed, so we're not getting anywhere, giving them any attention. So unfortunately, their point is void if they're still going out of their way to put down others with regard to this topic, which isn't really beneficial to the community at all

I'm not going to give them attention or DM them like they asked since they openly disrespected me a few minutes ago. So them apologising to me won't fix anything if they've made other people feel uncomfortable due to not respecting boundaries. I won't be surprised if they try to hide it too to cover their tracks anytime soon

Okay, so i tried to look at the history of announcements for the site since i joined after reputation system was put in place alongside the voting feature which influences it. So I do apologise if i may not have the long term experience of being a user here.

The upvote and downvote system i've noticed was only implemented recently this year, so of course there might be some growing pains to get used to. This isn't the admins or the moderators fault as I guess its just a tool to help the community evaluate posts and I theorised maybe this wasn't one of the expected outcomes which is okay. I do wonder if other sites though went through a similar phase when they put a voting system in place

The staff is only doing their best as i said earlier. Perhaps the system just needs more time to get used to rather than ripping it out shortly after its been implemented. Reddit has a similar system, and they haven't removed it yet. So i would like to know how this forum would be different that it would suddenly need downvotes to be removed that isn't related to the obvious users causing grief. Like, are there people joining just to spread misinformation and spread files that have malicious codes within them?

If someone said a really terrible pun, thats so painful it hurts. Some people would naturally want to downvote for the bad joke, which makes sense?

I know not every new feature might work for a community. Maybe its best we keep trying to work together, learning how we can utilise it better rather than letting a very small minority just ask admin to take it away.

[PrIsMaTiSm]

@LizEllie This has obviously become personal for you. I am truly sorry you can't get over this.

[AviCreat]

@PrIsMaTiSm Honestly not to sound like I am trying to attack you as I'm not but that comment sounds a bit off given your insistence to continue your arguments with people on multiple threads. You made your own thread to argue your case and the admin actually went out their way to help with your issue despite the disrespect you did in showing your dms and continuing to fight against their community.
They are doing everything they can to be accommodating to you so please do the same back and respect them by not arguing with people in these threads as it doesn't seem to get anywhere.
I understand your argument against downvotes as I do agree people misuse them to go after people they may not like or that they may just disagree with for no reason and it isn't fair but at the end of the day you had the right reasons at first but then it just seemed to be an argument that your making only to benefit yourself.
This is a thread to talk about our opinions on the downvote situation not a place to defend yourself. I just ask that you please respect spooky, again I am not trying to attack you or sound rude.

[PrIsMaTiSm]

@AviCreat So Let me get this straight, You think I am arguing, while there is someone a couple posts up that decides to write a eulogy with seething intent? I didn't even read the post to not spur up another useless debate and somehow I'm STILL the bad guy? At some point you must realize I am not the issue here?

I post a reply in the general help section, and while yes, I got help from admins, I also got belittled by other users of this forum in the HELP SECTION and was forced to defend my side. I haven't even recognized half of the comments made there and yet people get mad when I describe by viewpoint??.....

I'm confused, it's almost as if users here are not afraid to voice their opinions, but as soon as they get a reply they start throwing red cards and saying I'm the argumentative one. It's like they don't expect any form of reply to the things they write.

I get you aren't trying to attack me, what I don't get are the people here that think I am trying to attack them...

[AviCreat]

@PrIsMaTiSm I understand what your saying but when you engage back with people it becomes an argument so yes I would say by definition you are "arguing". If you want to be the bigger person in this situation your best option is to just lay low you dont have to reply to every comment. You respond to everyone but never with the intent to understand what they are saying but to invalidate what they have to say. You even did it with me, you replied with a response not to address much of what I said but to argue what has been done to you. I am not messaging in regards to anything that has happened to you but saying please respect this thread for what it is. I no longer wish to continue this as it is not in the topic of what this thread is about and I want to respect spooky in this situation and listen to peoples opinions on the downvote issue.

[j0xged3]

Arguments over reddit karma

Keep the downvote feature because this shit entertaining.

[SpookyVersace]

It looks like most of you want to keep the downvoting, and I fully agree with that. But I didn't vote because I think it's up to all of you to decide. I'll make some changes though. I want to limit the number of downvotes each person can give and make it so one person can only downvote another person once a day. Also, there will be a minimum reputation required to both upvote and downvote. This is to stop people from creating new accounts just to vote.

One more thing, let's not use downvoting to target specific people. Just because you don't like someone, it doesn't mean you should downvote everything they post. Sometimes people here are acting like they are in high school.

[Nekojita]

@j0xged3 said in Remove downvoting?:

Arguments over reddit karma

Keep the downvote feature because this shit entertaining.

ikr that person is doing a legit account deletion speedrun, its gone at -100 rep

[Flippy]

@PrIsMaTiSm I think this has spiraled way out of control.

If I'm correct this roughly started with you claiming to others on several posts that they shouldn't bump up a thread more often than 24 hours in between. People didn't like how much of a mod/officer you were about it so they kindly and unfortunately roughly told you to screw off to which you continued to debate with them over and over this until someone, or a select few, decided to downvote several of your posts to spite you. You would continue to self appoint yourself as the person who will go to every post that didn't follow this personal rule of yours (claiming it was the rule of the forum, which it isn't) and came off as a nuisance. As soon as the downvotes pilled high you went and made a post crying to the admins about this universal downvote problem that several users are suffering from.

Which isn't entirely the case. (At least as far as I know. I could be wrong and if so I apologize for such a misspoke) I don't think this is as big as you are making it out to be. It's sad it's had to come to this point but this could of been ended at any time. You can't believe you're in the right to mod someone even if you think a non-rule is a good one. I could be missing some stuff but I think everything has been summed up and said at this point that I would be adding to a big pile of nothing.

Apologies again if this has gone off topic. I'll refrain from adding much that isn't the downvote issue.

[PrIsMaTiSm]

@AviCreat The downvote issue directly applies to me.

Additionally, you say I don't pay attention to what people have to say, I just argue with what they said, how can I argue what I never paid attention to? Everyone's' 'solution' is to lay low. Why on Earth would that ever be a solution? "Yeah, you know what would fix the downvote issue? Making people forget they were mad at you so you don't get downvoted." What that literally means is that its not my issue, it other peoples issue and I should stop for a while so people forget about it. Makes no sense, but then I'm expected to believe it makes sense, otherwise, take negative rep.

@j0xged3 Reddit karma doesn't have negative repercussions. That's what we are discussing here. I'm all for keeping the downvote system, but remove the repercussions. If you want to call it a vote, fine, whatever helps you sleep at night, but I cannot think of any other platform I have ever seen that will remove you and/or privileges if people vote you out.

@Flippy yes, you are correct, and yes, I started SUGGESTING that people not bump more than once every 24 hours per post to prevent spam. I never said it was a written rule, I did however repeatedly say it was a guideline that was roughly agreed upon. I don't see anyone arguing about a bump every 24 hours, I do however see complaints about bumps every 2 hours, so where is the line? That's why its a guideline, no one will get angry at you if you follow it.

I think some people took that to mean I was trying to prevent any bumps on a particular post in a 24 hour period, that is not the case. Preventing users like Crises and Minako and others who constantly bump the same post(s) over and over is the main goal. There is nothing wrong with people bumping a post they like. I do not care if 20 people bump the same post within 5 minutes. They are different people, all bumping a post because they are interested. I do however see an issue where one user will ritualistically bump the same post(s) every few hours with the belief that it will get them what they want faster. That is beyond the scope of this topic however.

@Clown Seeing the amount of flippant, rude and derogatory statements in @LizEllie's comment get upvotes from the community when I, having not done near that level, get heavily downvoted is very disheartening. Sad that you see such action warranting an upvote simply because of who it was directed to.

TL;DR Remove negative rep repercussions, and add a rule about spamming to the forum of which duration is determined via a vote post to avoid other situations such as what has happened in order to take stress off of admins and remove confusion from posters/bumpers.

Ah less than 7 minutes in and I see I have my first downvote of this comment. Hooray for making basic suggestions to better the community!

[AviCreat]

@PrIsMaTiSm I didn't say at any point that you don't read or pay attention to what people have to say I said you go out your way to invalidate what people say. So maybe you just proved your own defence there wrong. I'm telling you to lay low not just for your sake but everyone else as people just want to make an opinion here on the downvote and not have you calling them out for every little detail of what they said and making it a personal attack towards you. It's not to make people forget its to let everyone move on from this situation as I think thats best for everyone. Also this downvote issue doesnt "directly apply to you" it applies to this community as a whole. Again, please leave this thread for what it is and allow people to give their opinions of the downvote, it's their opinion you dont have to have an argument for everything everyone says.

[AviCreat]

I will no longer continue to engage with you as I feel there is no point in continuing this as it just makes you ruin your own image further. I also don't wish to continue this as this thread is for spooky to see what people think of the downvote not for us to have this kind of conversation. I wish you luck with your downvote situation and hope you enjoy your time on the forums, I dont wish for drama with you as I'm not one for that.

[PrIsMaTiSm]

@AviCreat said in Remove downvoting?:

You respond to everyone but never with the intent to understand what they are saying but to invalidate what they have to say.

So you would then agree I have to first understand what they are saying in order to reply in kind? I have said many times that I have understood others' viewpoint.

@AviCreat said in Remove downvoting?:

Also this downvote issue doesnt "directly apply to you" it applies to this community as a whole.

This literally means that it directly applies to me, since I, like you, are part of this community.

[SpookyVersace]

Can we please put an end to the arguments? Let's return to sharing avatars and being friendly instead of enemies. The downvoting is staying. @PrIsMaTiSm, you have the chance to change, much like how the Godfather did. I am willing to reset your reputation to 0 as long as you cease the arguments. If you continue to receive downvotes due to the arguments after I take this step, I won't provide any further opportunities. Additionally, if I come across any unfair downvotes, I will send dms to those individuals.