Nah, the types of people who do that don’t have the balls to comment. For them, the dopamine rush comes from pushing a button and moving on. They love that it doesn’t take any time for them to try to affect the conversation.

See, they don’t wanna be hard, the just don’t want YOU to be heard if they disagree with you.

I prefer negative comments to serial downvoters. Serial downvoters are cowards.

Nah, the people who live to follow people around and downvote are in too deep. Easy to ban them now, so easy peasy to deal with them. That’s what makes them so mad! lol

How so? Are you defending serial downvoters?

And more and more I think it’s better to completely get rid of the downvote button.

Yep! I wish all Lemmy instances would get rid of the downvote button. So many drive-by serial downvoters would have to find a different hobby.

Regarding downvotes, can someone explain to me why it’s bad or wrong? I’ve posted my drawings before and they were downvoted.

Now imagine you had your own community centered around your art. And instead of someone just not liking your work, there’s this one person who goes out of their way to downvote everything you post, no matter what it is. He doesn’t block your community. He actually waits around just to downvote your stuff.

Now let’s say you have another community. Not art-related at all. It’s about pears. That’s right, just pears. Poems about pears, pictures of pears, pear facts. Suddenly, every single post gets downvoted.

And guess what? It’s the same guy.

Sounds weird, right? Like what kind of person follows you around the platform just to downvote everything?

Let’s take it a step further. You look up the guy’s profile and realize he’s never posted anything. No comments. Nothing. Out of curiosity, you check his voting history and it turns out all he does on Lemmy is downvote every new post he sees.

Creepy, right? But also way more common than you’d think. That’s why you keep seeing this topic pop up.

Everything I described has happened to me. Sometimes all of it, sometimes just parts. But I’ve definitely run into people on Lemmy who downvote just because they think it’s funny. For me, some people just downvote my shit because of my name and the fact they don’t like me. And they have been very open about it.

One guy even said about me, “I can’t help it. I see Universal Monk’s name. I downvote.”

Lemmy seems to attract folks who are a little more extreme in their obsessive behavior than other platforms. Sure, a few users have been wrongly banned here and there for downvoting. But the number of serial downvoters here is ridiculous, especially the extreme political types or the hardcore anti-AI crowd.

I had someone downvote some stories I posted the other day. In a pattern that seemed to imply he didn’t actually read them. But he let me know that it’s because he didn’t like the cover art or the story subject (Trump, hamsters, vampire nuns with strap-ons, and nutraloaf).

That kind of downvoting is fine and what the button is for. But it’s not like he went in and downvoted everything.

And since he didn’t like my writing style, he blocked the community so he doesn’t have to see my posts there (I post a lot). That’s how Lemmy should work.

And of course I didn’t ban him; he didn’t do anything wrong.

And I still don’t see what all the controversy is about. I post just about anything I read that I find interesting. Funny how everyone overlooks the hundreds of posts I’ve made about science, socialism, anarchism, third parties, college, education, math, and more. I’ve started conservative communities, mixed-politics communities, socialist communities, anarchist communities, death cult communities, writing communities—you name it. My other main account is @UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works.

Now, using the logic a lot of people on Lemmy seem to apply: if Universal Monk is “conservative” just because I’ve posted links to conservative articles… then, by that same logic, shouldn’t I also be considered socialist and anarchist because I post so much socialist and anarchist content?

Also, if I were seriously trying to “ban evade,” would I really use my well-known and widely disliked username? Obviously not. I usually get banned right away anyway, as my history shows.

Posting links to news articles from across the political spectrum is not a good enough reason for the chaos my name seems to cause.

I’d love to see someone make a pie chart showing the ratio of my socialist, anarchist, and libertarian posts versus anything remotely conservative. You know why that’s hard? Because I’ve posted so much, and it covers so many topics, because I’m a human being with nuance.

Anyone who actually looks at my posting history would see that I lean libertarian-socialist, just like I’ve always said. The real issue is that Lemmy doesn’t like that I’ve never supported the two-party system. Not before the election or now. I never have, and I never will. I still stand by what I’ve said: Trump getting elected was the Democrats’ fault. They dropped the ball, and they deserved to lose. That’s been my view from the very beginning, and it hasn’t changed.

And if anyone has a problem with me posting a lot, or having more than one account on lemmy, then I invite them to check out:

@Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com

@Blaze@sopuli.xyz

@Blaze@lemmy.zip

@Blaze@feddit.org

@Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com

@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de

I regret nothing and I won’t change my posting habits. Thanks, friend!