Recently, many of our anti-Zionists posts have been downvoted to oblivion by liberals. As hexberians realized a while back, downvotes only help liberals since they are more numerous and they don’t need to engage in discourse. I am proposing to just get rid of downvotes and instead engage in discourse on content that we disagree on.
I couldn’t agree more, I love the way the Grad has been, most of the downvotes I received have served 2 purposes: 1.) A constructive criticism from someone who has a disagreement with one of many points I make in a post, 2.)funny downvotes from libs. I honestly appreciate both of these for very different reasons
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to say this. I tend to ignore them but on longer posts I do check. And if I get down votes I reread what I wrote and see if it needs correcting. This has led to fixing mistakes and to rethinking theoretical errors/issues.
Sometimes a comrade might not know quite what’s wrong with what you said but they notice something is problematic. A down vote can express that without stressing over how to phrase it or about being a debate pervert.
Even when I conclude that I am right, I’ve sharpened my thinking because I trust comrades’ down votes enough to reconsider the matter. That was easier to decide before the Reddit exodus. Things have calmed down since then as the reactionaries have better learned their place and realised that they can’t abide dissent so have either individually or instance-wide blocked us for daring to be on the right side of history.
Of course, if I say something like Free Palestine, any down votes are a badge of pride. So when I’m obviously right and get down voted, it’s easy to ignore.