And you have a problem resulting to insults when you are not being understood rather than trying harder to communicate.

Oh I am not really one for sarcasm unless for comedic purpose. Hyperbole, sure.
But, I wear my emotions on my sleeves and when I thank someone or tell them off I mean it entirely. I’m here for the conversation and I appreciate you having it with me.

Oh shoot forgot to say.

Thanks for the conversation. I feel more, I want to say expanded, in my view on voting and it’s usefulness for those that remain more silent than myself.

Interesting. I particularly think your last point might be really key to the use of voting.

It feels like a way to participate.
I guess it takes all types to make a community and that includes those that don’t want to participate at full effort all the time.

I do not find upvotes and down votes to be very guaranteed to match facts and using it as a checking tool would require a very different user ase that would likely not be human. But I understand you said to an extent. I just… Give it less slack. But hard down voted, sure, needs way more reservations.

I am just saying the point of these forums is more the conversation and less the voting and it’s really not very useful as a tool, while not being useless.

Imagine a substack post, as these forums were based on, where someone asks for support with a batch script and someone suggests using a sticky note taped to the monitor. It gets downvoted but no one offers any countering support.
No one would use the site for support anymore. It’s clearly not with helpful information, and the person looking at it would not know but just see what looks like an unkind user base.

Right but if you disagree shouldn’t that be vocalized otherwise the downvote doesn’t make sense and people don’t know what the countering opinion is?
I get it’s not everyone’s responsibility to respond but… It doesn’t really make sense as just a tool to show disagreement and provide diversity in the comments.

But someone making an opinionated statement, sure at the top level the votes just act as a miniature poll but beyond that I’m not sure I see it’s usefulness as a conversationary tool.

You are making up a stance that I don’t have to think you are controlling the conversation.

Also, adding times did not make your position any more clear. Please clarify your evidence and what you are taking away from that article.

Yes, and how well do people treat Mark Zuckerbot?

Yeah I think big level at the feed, down votes help control what is interesting conversation pieces and not and then in the comments it should be related to how on topic or useful or fun to the conversation presented by the original item.

There is some extremely childish behavior on Lemmy in regards to downvotes and in response to them as well.

They audited less than 40 fewer than smaller businesses?

What?
I think you misread the article or I am having a hard time parsing the meaning of that sentence.

During the 5 year gap from 2019 to 2024 they only flagged 22 ultra wealthy companies cases vs 848 flags for small companies and that doesn’t mean a full audit was done just referred. And that’s the 40 times fewer, the number of flagged criminal referrals.

I really don’t think you read that. I think you really are looking for bias confirming items and even gloss over presented data.
Take a second and breath and think that it might be ok to progress your views beyond what you already think you know.
Or please point out to me your evidence?

Me laughing proves the DNC is a progressive party? I don’t think that logic is very robust.

I think it makes you feel more confident in disregarding the arguments of others which is the point you want to conclude but it’s unrelated to your previous point and that’s searching for evidence to back your preconceived notion which is also bad science.

Plus this isn’t science or a polling sample it’s a conversation.
So much wrong with how you interact with others.

No, they really don’t. They throw more money at customer service but they definitely don’t audit more and leadership knows that.

HA
Oh boy shortest standup routine to get me to laugh that hard.

Laws are a concept that only some of us seem to agree upon and has no real world repercussions for the wealthy since they aren’t like laws of physics and are only enforced for those that can’t afford to negate them.

Not knowing how things will go is just how the world works. We need leadership that at least tries and pushes for change and asks around for support making it, not money to vote yes.

This has all the typos of a very passionately typed comment and all dripping sarcasm of someone very defeated.

Shit sucks.

LOL that’s literally Eric Adams and Karen Bass the mayors of NYC and LA.
Adams took bribes and is now best friends with Trump and Bass “saved money” by cutting the budget for firefighters and then went to an oligarch cocktail party in Ghana during fire season and fired the fire chief who criticized her.

Both sent the police hard after protestors and have been praised by Democrat leadership for being outstanding members of the party.

I mean… It was always kinda out of touch. That I think was the point. It’s a group of self assured Texans who mean well but, don’t always act well.

I always found the Hills to be insufferable but it didn’t make it less fun to watch. So if they bring accurate boomerism to the screen but manage to make it feel real and empathetic then it seems like the original just aged like the actual boomers.

It’s directly known that if you are taking an SSRI or an SSNRI basically fully blocks the effects of psilocybin and most other hallucinogenics.

Someone had once said it seemed like deep thinkers, it didn’t work on and I always wonder if it’s some combination of brain chemistry difference in ADHD or depression that makes it less effective in some others not even on them.

I got a way better deal on a weird but awesome pillow by not buying it on Amazon and had the same experience overall. They had a real sale vs a flat percent on the Amazon store.

Heh as if I wasn’t an idiot and bloated my own steam library with fanatical mystery bundles and all those developers didn’t walk away with a completely random dollar and a chance to actually have a game get noticed and steam got zilch.

It honestly just sounds like a productive economy that’s constantly moving and giving opportunities to developers even if they aren’t getting nothing but ravid fans. Like how busking might work in a wealthy thriving city compared to a poor one.