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submitted 2 years ago by magnora7 from self.MeanwhileOnReddit
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[–]magnora7[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago* (4 children)
Yeah. Even the slideline subs like /r/conspiracy, I used to be able to post stuff there and get a wide audience. Now I post the same quality of stuff, and it immediately gets like 5 downvotes and no one ever sees it. So I quit posting there, because that always happens. I assume a lot of other people had the same happen to them. It's how the narrative is controlled, and it's a major reason why saidit doesn't have downvotes.
[–]asterias 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (3 children)
They weaponize downvotes so that your posts and comments are automatically flagged due to negative karma. It is more evident on smaller subs like r/greece, where each comment gets immediately a number of downvotes organized through discord, and each time you get the same number of downvotes. It is more evident with accounts that criticize certain minorities.
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (2 children)
I see downvotes in a different way. There's two ways I can get my message across, one is writing something popular that gets upvoted to visibility, but the easier way is to write something controversial. Everyone looks at those to see why it was so awful everyone keeps downvoting it.
[–]asterias 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
When you reach negative karma, your posting rights are automatically restricted. Reddit has also other forms of velvet glove censorship, like automatically collapsing comments based on your social credit and so on.
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
They capped the downvotes years ago, only 5 counts against your record.
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[–]magnora7[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun - (4 children)
[–]asterias 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - (3 children)
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[–]asterias 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - (1 child)
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