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"Consistently argumentative" is just another way of saying "goes against the echo chamber". Upvotes and downvotes are de facto agree/disagree buttons rather than a mark of whether a comment contributes to discussion, and the quality of the site has suffered by it.
Comment by relic2279 at 03/03/2021 at 05:51 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
"Consistently argumentative" is just another way of saying "goes against the echo chamber".
If someone is posting comments that get downvoted every single time, over the course of months & years, you have to ask if that particular community is right for the person. Sure, I've seen people post well thought-out & informative comments get downvoted for just disagreeing with the hivemind (hell, it's happened to me. The very first comment I made on reddit 13+ years ago was a concise, well thought-out counterpoint against Ron Paul. I was downvoted to oblivion - this was before subreddits even existed), it happens all the time. Daily in fact. However, it's rare to see it go on for weeks, months & years.
Actually it's not rare, it's ridiculously rare. The *only* time I see it happen is with people purposefully trolling. And that's who this targets. There are orders of magnitude more trolls out there than people getting persecuted for having a legitimate differing opinion. If you're in the /r/cars subreddit and are downvoted for saying you like Fords, but then you *also* get downvoted for saying you hate Honda, Toyota, Chevy and all cars in general too, that we all should be riding bicycles, that's a clear case of being in the wrong subreddit. You should be in the /r/bicycle subreddit, not talking about bicycles in the cars subreddit. By continuing to do it, you're coming across as a troll whether you realize it or not.