rglullis

Surely, but there is not forcing you to keep using them when they change the rules.

It doesn't have to be this way. There are instances focused only on basketball, soccer, American Football, Tennis...

It would be great to have people like you on https://fediverser.network. Follow the subreddits that you miss from there and use to promote the Lemmy alternatives.

And I hope to see you soon on !nba@nba.space. :)

If it's any incentive, Github sponsors costs money to Microsoft. They pay for the processing fees, and Stripe is not that cheap for micropayments.

FYI, I created !makers@communick.news right in the beginning with this audience in mind, but it didn't get any traction so I ended up prioritizing other things. I'd gladly help there if you want.

Same for hyperloop

There is no attempt at anything. The serial downvotes without any further participation is there in all types of topics. Not just with me.

I have sent a DM, four months ago, asking why. No response.

He finally answered now with an explanation. It's not what I would call the best reason for downvoting someone, and it certainly falls in the case of "not helpful for people posting to find out what is wrong with the submission", but at least it was a response.

Life goes on. You, apparently, did not. Now, instead of worrying about empty threats and your feeble attempt at intimidation, I will go enjoy my summer and continue working on my things.

Have a good one.

Yeah, I am still of the opinion that downvotes can be an important source of signal, but given the prevalence of "I don't like this, therefore I don't like you, here is my downvote", I'm starting to reconsider it.

In my ideal world we would get rid of up/downvotes and just use emoji reactions as a multi-dimensional form of evaluating content quality.

I have no recollection of interacting with you until yesterday, and a quick search is showing you only calling me creepy in a response to someone else because I called out two other commenters who, yes, were pretty much downvoting everything in a discussion about moving away from lemmy.ml.

Then and now, you are responding to something you don't like and you are resorting to make it personal (calling names, making value judgments) instead of making it about the behavior ("hey, why are you doing X? Can you please stop it?"). Do you understand the difference?

All I mean is that I would rather you talk about the things that concern you instead of arguing indirectly by mentioning "other people" that are just abstract entities.

LIke, it's fine if you don't want to contribute to the topic-based instances because of the concerns you stated. But when you say "some other people might think this" instead of being upfront and say "I think this", you create an impossible conundrum for me to solve: as much as I can try to work with you to solve the issues that concern you, I can not find and work with "other people".

Also, even if you don't want me to argue this case with you, it would be easier/better when you are straightforward about it. I'd take the hint and just "agree to disagree" on this particular topic, and move on.

Hope that makes sense.

I downvoted you then for the same reason that I am downvoting you now: because you are more interested in making personal attacks and calling names than in a productive conversation.

Also, please re-read my comment. There is an experienced moderator from a reasonably large instance saying "sometimes all that is needed is to call out bad behavior and ask people to stop it". If you don't agree with it, fine, but don't go around saying that only someone "emotionally unstable" would act this way.

In the spirit of "just ask people to stop", I'll say this: Can you please drop the needless aggression and name-calling? Let's try to assume good intentions first?

I assume you'd also disagree with this? https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/112895701054913465