It do be like that most times:(

I was going to downvote this, but then I realised that would be admitting you won.

I'll have to write an angry comment instead

erm

here goes

You're a stupid libtankietard who votes for chairman musk and all your opinions are based on Facebook and the UN. You probably believe the moon is round. You can't even wear your Arch Socks on the right feet. We should defederate.

Phew I think I won now. I forgot what we were arguing about?

I think to demonstrate how to properly wear your arch socks you should take a pic of yours and post it to the unix socks community to be a good example.
- I'm sorry, I don't post explicit photos of myself online.

Hey tankies gonna be tankies.

I'm glad we all get the message

I remember when the queen came round to congratulate me on my upvote score, and it added £1000 to my bank account and everyone went around saying "look there they are, wow". But it was all ruined the day the Fire nation attacked.

Look at this someone who thinks you can win an argument on the internet.

I think i win when the other person starts resorting to insults at least
- I think i win when the other person starts resorting to insults at least
  Bell end.
- Thats right just keep telling yourself that ;)
- I suppose a subjective win is still a win, I suppose.
- It worked for the Vietnam war and all other U.S. wars since, why can’t we use the same strategy online?
More often than not, both feel they won
Yeah exactly, if you are talking about winning an online argument you've already lost in many ways

I love it when i see a bunch of new downvotes in my history after an argument because i count every single one is a tear shed by my opponent

But why even look at that? Who cares?
- Well the way i navigate thru conversations I'm having currently brings me to my history since i'm usually having more than one at a time an i need to know who's replying to what. When one of those is an argument, noticing a bunch of single downvotes while passing thru my history causes air to erupt from my nose because it proves to me that someone I've got beef with is definitely malding.
  The points don't matter but the impotent effort they put in does, get me? It feels as close to a win as you'll ever get on the 'net
Yes, downvote my month old Star Trek joke. Cry harder.
I mentally multiply all votes by ℹ anyway.

You're really gonna let the world make you care about grumpy little arrow clicks? It diminishes us to even think about it. Each person is a being of pure chaos at the infinite center of creation. You are cosmic, made of stardust and in ways beyond words profound.

Besides, there's no user karma on this site.

It's not that i care. It's just weird randomly seeing a lot of my benign comments at 0 upvotes. I can only then wonder how petty one must be to take their time to go through the effort
- Really depends on what they use and how far back they went on you
  Like I've said elsewhere I do this to people posting insane or false bullshit that are clearly spamming it, if you're taking a shit or whatever and on Voyager you can click someone's name and swipe slightly to downvote, can get through over a hundred comments in one shit if you don't pay any attention to the content and just swipe, I bet
- i never look at the total score, one of the many horrible reddit features, plus i remove my automatic upvote
I love the downvote you got for that. The one lonely little downvote. There's something poetic about it.
- At last, 🧑‍🔬 funny haters
- Now it's gone…

"Win an argument online"

The edible paste market must be booming.

The very best is when some fucking loser goes back through your comment history and says, "Oh ya, well..." and brings up something you wrote months ago to try to embarrass you into silence. Fuck those pathetic fucking losers.

This you?
“The very best is when some fucking loser goes back through your comment history and says, "Oh ya, well..." and brings up something you wrote months ago to try to embarrass you into silence. Fuck those pathetic fucking losers.”
- Hehehe. Yes.
I love seeing when someone goes to find a months old comment and they pull out just.. meh shit.
They spent all their time going through someone's profile for the tamest stuff.
- I had someone say, "Go back and play with your Legos!"
  "It's , 'Lego bricks.'"
  Hehehe

Me here down voting your histo because I don't like your user name.

Watch it buddy. I don't fuck around. If i catch you making any spelling mistakes, it's straight to the slammer right after i brutally shove you to the ground making you struggle for air
- Watch it buddy. I don't fuck around. If i catch you making any spelling mistakes, it's straight to the slammer right after i brutally shove you to the ground making you struggle for air
  As you fail to capitalize two I's and neglected a period at the end of your statement.
- Kinna off topic but do you get corrected on your grammar often with that username?
- just imagine they're learning dvorak

lmao, it's always so obvious when it happens. If they just downvoted my political opinions, it'd be whatever, but when they downvote things like providing sources and explanations for anodyne posts? Just tells me I can mentally subtract 1 downvote from all my recent comments.

This comment annoys me. I'm down voting your previous comment.
Exactly lmao. It's so petty

Everyone's in here talking about downvotes... I read this meme and thought "You seriously get into arguments on the internet?" The most I'll do is leave a comment telling someone they're full of it and then ignore the rest. Since the comment is more for the silent masses reading than the person I'm replying to. Hey, kinda like this comment. OP probably will spend their days in smug misery but I hope the rest of yall can step away from this petty bullshit some time.

I admire your nonchalance
- Divine nonchalance to you!

I'm sorry dog but if you're talking crazy saying Little Caesar's tastes like ass and I look and see that you're part of r/PissSwisherAnonymous Imma call you out

I've honestly never had Little Caesar's, I assumed it was similar to Dominos in quality...
- Domino's isn't very hit or miss depending on which one you go to, most are cardboard, some are good.
  Little Ceasars is very consistently mediocre no matter where you go, and mediocre pizza is still pizza at the end of the day.
- Somehow it's both cheaper and better, at least in my area, but the bar is low because my local Domino's is awful.

I thought it was a feature of Lemmy that karma don't mean shit.

Or to more precisely put it, Lemmy accumulates up/down votes to their actual worth.

Nuuuuu not my updoots ;(

I had a dedicated fan for a couple weeks.

Lucky you. I just had a crazy person who stopped logging in after they got banned for two days. :-(

How do you even notice such a thing?

Easy. All my downvotes are just salty people who lost at some point in the past. They just make it look realistic in an attempt to fool you.
They're actually the one doing it.

Tankies announcing they won an argument after they finished making claims without evidence and then deleting the comments of the other person.

How do you delete someone else's comments? Were you arguing with an admin?
- Check the Lemmy.ml mod log...

Honestly, I am so happy that Lemmy doesn't tie votes to any points like Reddit. It's a pity that people will still find a way to bring points into arguments. Yeah it sucks when people disagree with you, but can't always be right all the time either.

That's just inefficiently stupid. Don't burn bridges, burn entire cities.

If you want to go down the blunt force road, don't down vote manually, let a script do that ... for you and your 10 closest ~~alt accounts~~ friends.

If you want to be a bit more sophisticated you have a bot run your alt accounts, commenting with short LLM generated content at random posts. And whenever your mark is active, you use one of these accounts to come at them. Maybe have your replies rewritten by your AI, so you don't give it away by using the same phrases.

You can take it one step further, and analyse your marks interactions. Does a username pop up more than others consistently? Then your mark may have both poor OPSEC and an alt.

Fuck you, turd burger!
(Let's see this thing at work, or was this all just spitball...)

Honestly that just means you won twice

I love it when failed stand up commedians try to troll you, fail, and cry to moderators when you guess who they are irl.

Then they get their podcast cohost to troll you and theu fail even worse.

Imma need more of this story please!
cohost??? the (unfortunately dead) website???

The nice thing about YouTube is that that isn't possible.

It's a dumb feature that should be opt-in.

Who cares about votes?

+1

I had no idea people were doing that lol.

I remember people on reddit cancelling themselves with a comment and when I checked their post history they all had many downvotes.

Better than them going through it trying to figure out where you live and what your identity is.

You used to be able to prove it too via kbin. It was very interesting having a supposedly cordial convo just to see that same person crawl your comment history downvoting everything.

win lol. discourse is about discovery and the search for truth. The most valuable arguments for me are when someone genuinely changes my mind.

Maybe win isn't the right word. Although you get the point
- oh yeah. I only downvote to straight out spam after I report. like buy xyz drugs someplace or shit like that. (kbin had a bad ending)

You love to see it

You know if online arguing and down voting make them happy I guess

None of the affixed features to social media do much for me when their entire purpose is engagement farming for the most part.

So I can be right and they can fulfill their dopamine filled social media binge.

Lol so true!

You posting a paragraph of personal insults that doesn't get a reply doesn't mean you won the argument.

Yes it does! You swab-swabbling underbelly of half-quantum inaebraeo-formongerable elephantine mouse poop!!1!