fer0nHave you ever downvoted your own post/comment?
PonyOfWarNo… until now!
Give me some love too, everybody!
Actually, I think I downvoted myself on Reddit once, but this will be a first for Lemmy.
What was the reason on Reddit? ^^
The CuuuuubeI downvoted an old comment of money because I grew and changed and no longer acreed with the 19yo version of myself
Haha, that’s kind of funny. You really are a different person at different ages.
I don’t remember the context, but IIRC I said something, and realised I was being seriously dumb later in the discussion, to the point that just crossing it out wasn’t enough. It was a long time ago.
Did you support Trump?
No. Supporting the “America First” guy as a non-American is a mistake that’s beyond even me. A few rare, “special” people make it, though.
Call me Lenny/LeniI tested it to see what would happen a few days ago, since there are some platforms where downvoting your comment causes it to become deleted. Nothing happened, so I just went about my way.
orizuruI see you like playing life on hard mode.
MrJameGumbNo, because that’s dumb
mysoulishomeYeah if I realize I’m factually wrong or being a dick for no reason and it’s too late to shadow edit I’ll state as such and note to the parent comment I’m wrong and downvoting myself. It’s more mature than just deleting your comment, which fuels the fantasy that you’re not talking to real people and can just take back anything you say and un-say it. Getting downvoted or murdered by words and then just deleting your comment is kinda cowardly and doesn’t allow you to grow IMO. If you (I) cared what people think maybe you should have thought about it more before you said it.
Well said
CrackhappyBrilliant. I was doing something similar but I like your style more.
CorrodedI don’t agree that deleting what you said is cowardly. Most people here have seen how Redditors try and weaponize the downvote button and even if someone does apologize someone else can miss it and rehash the same counter argument.
There’s no growth there. It’s just tedious.
Most of the time it’s not even a real argument or an answer to a deep moral question just a semi controversial opinion like arguing Arch Linux is a good beginner distro.
Never, because I’m a very stable geenius.
No. If it was something worth for me to downvote, i wouldn’t post it in the first place.
No. Any site that upvotes your post automatically is designed that way. It’s not like Facebook where liking your own comment is kind of like jerking yourself off for the lack of better words
Perfect words
In front of other people, too
OptimusPhillipIf I ever feel the need to downvote my own post, I would probably just as well delete it.
recursive_recursion [they/them]Yup
might as well keep my dumb comments up so I don’t make the same mistakes again
I like to do it always because it is worth two votes.
PixeIOrange
MugmoorNo. If anything I’d edit my post to better reflect what I was trying to communicate.
funchordsYes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.
The hero we need etc
My instance doesn’t allow me to :)
To downvote your own or to downvote anything at all?
I can’t downvote anything at all
Haha that’s one way to keep a positive attitude ^^
FizzNah I only upvote comments and very rarely downvote. If I’m wrong I’ll just reply saying that i was wrong and concede the point.
gabriele97I will now!
zephyrI probably need to start downvoting my posts after finding a solution.