I posted when this instance first started and there was nearly nothing.

Why did you stop?

Well I’m not going to post anything, so you’re not going to decide whether it gets exposure or not. So that’s that sorted.

No, it’s you who aren’t entitled to content.

If I have to make an effort to do something it has to be rewarded. Else why do it?

You don’t wake up in the morning and whack yourself in the face with a teaspoon, do you? It wouldn’t happen because there would be no reward in it. Except for that one person in 100,000.

So without me, and people like me*, you ain’t up or downvoting anything because no on is posting.

*Unless you want to leave the posting to the bots…

I don’t like downvotes. I post stuff here, if it gets downvoted it can fail and go below the level of visibility that garners it more votes. People will downvote for any reason that comes into their heads. It’s almost like random noise but it messes with my post’s path to its intended audience.

I don’t see what possible motivation I would have to keep posting when that is happening.

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Ahhh see you have now reverted to the standard troll handbook. And that’s why the downvotes were turned off. Off you pop, back to Redgifs and don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.

I’d rather you left a mean comment because then I can tell pretty much where you’re coming from. If you’re a cunt then I can ignore you. If you have a particular gripe with the picture (too old, too small, kink you don’t like etc.) I can decide what to do about that on a case by case basis, you never know you might end up getting content that you like better. And that’s before we get into the vote manipulation argument where users can promote their own content against competing content.

Can you give me an example of a condescending post? Not a comment, a condescending post.

The fact that you’re unironically using the “snowflakes” argument makes me suspect that you just use downvotes because you’re a miserable type of a person and you just want to spread that misery around.

There’s literally no point in interacting at all without downvotes.

If the extent of your engagement is voting then nothing is lost without your engagement. Why the fuck should I source content, verify it and then post it when all you little Emperor Commoduses just downvote it for the lulz?

If ever there was a user whose existence argued against the ability to downvote thou art the man.

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