I’ve only deleted comments when I actually regret posting them, like if I was an absolute dick to someone who didn’t actually deserve it
Yeah. I remember I got heavily downvoted on reddit once when I made an Office reference, which seemed weird to me since reddit usually loves the Office, but then I only slowly realized in context the reference inadvertently seemed really racist which was very much not my intention so I deleted it.
I rarely delete otherwise though.
I accidentally defended a paedophile once, didn’t know who the person was, just wanted to make a shitty joke… deleted that real quick.
Did u defend them about pedophilia or something elae?
Nah someone made a reference to someone in their 40s being too old for the person i “defended”, I made a joke about not kink shaming, then someone explained it to me.
I misread it as they liked older people.
Gotta be careful making shitty jokes when you’ve been drinking all night.
Isn’t it better to apologise?
I do both! I delete too cause I just don’t like keeping that negativity out there.
Sir, this is the internet.
Leave it up to remind yourself you can be better.
Fuck you piece of shit fuck you
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I leave them up, but edit to say what I think about it now. I value transparency and the willingness to change your mind when presented with new facts or apologize for being wrong, and I want to set an example for others to see. I’ve been an ass and said things I regret later, and I’ll do it again I’m sure.
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If you have issues with autism you’re gunna have a bad time talking to me. Lemmy ain’t 4chan, but there is a 4chan community for you to talk as offensively as you like
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Using autism as an insult isn’t exactly colorful, it just shows you’ve never met and/or respected an autistic person.
Colorful would’ve been something like “fucknut idiots with donkey cum for brains”, or “shitbrained human equivalents of a week-old used tampon”, or “assfaces who would lose a spelling competition to a dead camel”, etc.
You could be a lot more creative, funny, and less offensive if your goal is colorful. If your goal is to regurgitate weak ass meme language from 4chan, keep equating people you don’t like with autism
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I think North Korea is an unpleasant place to be, Taiwan isn’t part of the PRC, and Stalin was a murderous dick. Makes me unpopular on Lemmy, but I gotta be me.
Facts
Yea sometimes I get downvotes but I know I’m right.
Sometimes I have upvotes on a cringe comment and delete those lol.
On Reddit I feel like people would just look for heavily downvoted comments to tag in and add their two cents, which could easily mean your inbox exploding, so I could understand deleting just to stop the flood, but generally I don’t worry too much about deleting old comments just because people didn’t agree with me.
On reddit the only thing that matters is the first few votes. The content of your comment doesn’t matter, people will pile on the upvotes or downvotes because agreeing with the group gives you a dopamine rush
At this point I think I would seriously start to worry about myself if everyone on Reddit agreed with me:-P.
So true. 5 likes and I smash that like button fr fr no cap.
I am too lazy and not petty enough to delete the comments I post. takes me too much effort to go thru with making one anyways
Take pride in your downvoted posts
Definition of “I said what I said”
My whole career on Stack Exchange…
I’ll delete a comment if the entire comment is factually false. Otherwise it stays up.
If everyone did this the internet would be 1% of the size it is now.
And 99% better
Never back down never what?
Never give up, never surrender.
Never gonna give you up
Thats a lie. You gave up on me, you never even gave me a chance
How can I have given up on you if I never gave you a chance?
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Seems the obvious course of action honestly
Downvotes on Lemmy are just an indicator that you are unlikely to succeed as a socialist politician at the national level. Short of that, I would ignore their value.
Damn i was downvited to oblivion by telling EV car batt arent reliable
Then i was telling those EV fanbois that Toyota has made the right decision to shift their RD in hydrogen rather than pussies heavies battery
Yea they did make a Hydrogen V8 engine !!!
Hope is not lost
It make more noise with a enviro friendly engine !!!
Duh
Look at Siemens developing train that run on hydrogen
It called calorific content !!!
Batt cant touch the level og hydrogen potential per volume
Plus they so heavy those ev car …they eill pollute more with specialized ture
Blah blah
Downvote me to helll.
I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the downvotes you receive are for your absurd use of punctuation lmao
XD savage!
Probably right. But tbh, whenever I see this, my assumption is either the user is in their 60s and unused to typing, or more likely they’re typing in their non-native language and using the typical rules of their native one. And I’d feel shitty making fun of either.
It would be a better internet if that were everyone’s first assumption, because I turn out to be correct way more often than not. A quick stalk through their profile proves it to be the second one — punctuation is handled with an extra space in French.
While this isn’t supposed to be true of Canadian french, which is what they’ve claimed, I could see that still leaking into speech somehow and I’m kinda curious how it happened. Any québécois, how rigidly are English spacing rules adhered to?
The space is the least of it. It’s more the combination of using no periods, hitting enter after every thought, then using somewhere between 3 and 6 exclamation marks. Any one of these alone wouldn’t make me raise an eyebrow, but the combination makes it ridiculous.
pussies heavies battery
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