You can’t downvote me even if you wanted to! MY MASTER PLAN IS FINALLY COMPLETE!
Now I will have the most downvoted post in the history of this site FOREVER!
You can’t downvote me even if you wanted to! MY MASTER PLAN IS FINALLY COMPLETE!
Now I will have the most downvoted post in the history of this site FOREVER!
Positives: Now I won't go into self doubt avalanches (avalanche is not the word I wanted) because I recieved one (1) downvote. Negatives: Now I can't vent my frustration to a bad post with a simple downvote, and will instead feel the need to reply every time, which will increase the likelyhood of my temper issues getting out of control and saying something petty and stupid that I shouldn't and eventually getting banned.
Mixed bag imo.
Self doubt avalanches from a single downvote are great. It has all the weight of my hyperfocused brain's creativity to berate myself for various imagined ways I've messed up or bothered people with all the shame and embarassment of said feelings resulting from a single downvote
I feel you comrade
I also hadn't considered that a lot of people end contentious conversations with a downvote, thanks for pointing that out. I personally really struggle with disengaging (can you tell? lol) and can see that pulling me into aggressive and pointless encounters if I'm not careful
Thank you for your compassion/sympathy/empathy, I never know which if those words is correct, comrade.
I never know either lmao, that's why I just go with wholesome haha. Thanks!
Thank you too, your posts are usually great and ones like this make me feel incredibly seen and valid, and I can't express how important that is to my mental health :heart-sickle:
Quill, I said exactly this in one of your threads, in a comment you responded to
Damn you sure did! Guess It didn't really click until I heard it the second time. Though I do still stand by the take that we should try to not bring that mindset here
You're not wrong, but part of that is avoiding unnecessary conflict, and insisting that people should always comment if they want to express disagreement is most certainly not the way for me to do that (and I doubt I'm the only one)
Yeah for sure. I'm hopeful it's a cultural change we can all make together, but I'm probably being naive
One downvote? I always just assume there's one person having a bad day.
My brain is bad.