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Cake day: December 14th, 2023

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  • OK so the downvotes were turned on and I didn’t know about it and I checked in on that post, it had gone to minus one. And that felt a little bit shit.

    Next thing I have the thought, “Oh I had better go back to not making my titles funny, they don’t like that.”

    Then I had the, “Wait, why am I even doing this?” moment.

    So that’s the question I am asking in this conversation. Why should I get to feel a little bit shit every time I do a particular thing? And the answer is: I shouldn’t do that thing, isn’t it?



  • Why should I get any at all?

    You ain’t paying me, it’s rare that people leave a comment thanking me, although some users very kindly have. So all that’s left is the pleasure of seeing a post do well. Unfortunately, because of the mechanics of the board if a post doesn’t do well in the early part of the day or is rushed off the front page by a rush of content then it rarely becomes visible to the Americans when they come online.

    And returning to the last post standing, OK it’s not a popular post which I would know if the score was 4. But four people liked it. It bought a very small but significant amount of pleasure to their visit here. Why should it be necessary for people to downvote it? I already know that they are part of the overwhelming majority of people that didn’t upvote it.

    Last point: go look at the one comment on that post. I haven’t had a comment like that before. But it happened the day the downvotes got turned on.