Every time I make a post people comment about how I’m “known” and keep telling me to “stop trolling” or whatever, but here’s the thing: everyone complaining about me has the option to block me and never see my posts, but for some reason you don’t? It’s the same with Reddit, honestly.
If I don’t like someone, I will block them because I truly don’t care about you or anyone enough to engage with them.
A 22-year-old named Cole Schmidtknecht died because the price of his inhaler went from $66 to $539: he only had enough money for rent or the inhaler, so he chose rent over his medicine.
Do I care about him? Nope, not at all. I was tired of seeing the story, so I blocked it on Reddit and Instagram because I don’t feel empathy, sympathy or care enough about this person to truly give a fuck… Honestly, if he was dying on the ground and he asked me to get his inhaler that’s next to my shoe, I would just leave or kick it further away from him.
And feel no remorse about it at all.
So complaining about me has the option to block me and never see my posts.
That would work on Reddit. OP could be like me and hide the numbers entirely. I see the arrows. I don’t see the net vote weight or any vote counts. I also sort comments by new, so lowly voted comments are literally not affected in any way.
The only real benefit to mass downvoting someone is when someone makes a comment about how much it’s been downvoted. But that information would just age like milk, possibly even becoming untrue after a while (e.g. the Internet loves an underdog).
On Lemmy, a site that gives a user like OP the ability to not be affected by your disdain, the best use of your energy is just to block.