• Fleur_@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 days ago

    The only arguments you win are the ones you don’t participate in. Internet arguments are a race to the bottom of who can waste the least time.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    9 days ago

    The nice thing about YouTube is that that isn’t possible.

    It’s a dumb feature that should be opt-in.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Everyone’s in here talking about downvotes… I read this meme and thought “You seriously get into arguments on the internet?” The most I’ll do is leave a comment telling someone they’re full of it and then ignore the rest. Since the comment is more for the silent masses reading than the person I’m replying to. Hey, kinda like this comment. OP probably will spend their days in smug misery but I hope the rest of yall can step away from this petty bullshit some time.

  • slurpeesoforion@startrek.website
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    9 days ago

    I thought it was a feature of Lemmy that karma don’t mean shit.

    Or to more precisely put it, Lemmy accumulates up/down votes to their actual worth.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    lmao, it’s always so obvious when it happens. If they just downvoted my political opinions, it’d be whatever, but when they downvote things like providing sources and explanations for anodyne posts? Just tells me I can mentally subtract 1 downvote from all my recent comments.

      • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        Well the way i navigate thru conversations I’m having currently brings me to my history since i’m usually having more than one at a time an i need to know who’s replying to what. When one of those is an argument, noticing a bunch of single downvotes while passing thru my history causes air to erupt from my nose because it proves to me that someone I’ve got beef with is definitely malding.

        The points don’t matter but the impotent effort they put in does, get me? It feels as close to a win as you’ll ever get on the 'net

        • Eheran@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          Ah got it, thanks. I have never seen something like that for me and do not care, so would never look for it.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    9 days ago

    win lol. discourse is about discovery and the search for truth. The most valuable arguments for me are when someone genuinely changes my mind.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    You posting a paragraph of personal insults that doesn’t get a reply doesn’t mean you won the argument.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I remember when the queen came round to congratulate me on my upvote score, and it added £1000 to my bank account and everyone went around saying “look there they are, wow”. But it was all ruined the day the Fire nation attacked.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Tankies announcing they won an argument after they finished making claims without evidence and then deleting the comments of the other person.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    I was going to downvote this, but then I realised that would be admitting you won.

    I’ll have to write an angry comment instead

    erm

    here goes

    You’re a stupid libtankietard who votes for chairman musk and all your opinions are based on Facebook and the UN. You probably believe the moon is round. You can’t even wear your Arch Socks on the right feet. We should defederate.

    Phew I think I won now. I forgot what we were arguing about?