Another thing to note is that downvotes are, in effect, public. One hopes that this will have a chilling effect upon individuals and groups who have been gaming the karma/visibility system over on reddit for years.

They’re hoping you’re too sleep deprived to notice.

If you’re able to follow instructions then you can set up a server. For the purposes of this conversation then, as things stand, anybody is allowed to set up a server and then an instance and then see that data.

We’ll make great pets…

Got in a drunk argument with a raccoon, which led to my first underage drinking ticket because I refused to be spoken to in that tone

Perfectly understandable and the fact that you later became friends shows that establishing boundaries is important.

He’s free to deny service and the community are free to take their custom elsewhere. He’s not a victim of anything. Anything external anyway.

So I see you’ve got 8 downvotes for saying this, that’s because some people have a stupid personal rule that says if someone complains about downvotes then they should be automatically downvoted. This is a stupid redditism. Downvote me as well if you want but know that here we can see who you are if we decide we actually give a shit.

I think that downvotes became so heavily used as a disagree button because they were linked to visibility and, especially in political forums, it was a way of burying your opponent’s good arguments and then you could promote the weaker arguments. I sincerely believe that it’s some poor fucker’s job to go through and do this, although the whole chatGPT stuff means they’re going to find themselves out of work soon.

Can you give an example?

I sometimes will write in a ‘telling a funny story’ style that is a little more ornate than everyday speech to make it more comic in tone throughout.

Only server admins can see votes

But anyone can run a server.