I have a similar problem, idiots who have a political disagreement with me have downvoted my posts, by 4 points on a few comments and up to 40 on a post - which is bad since that potentially degrades an entire community's experience.
I just checked, there are 40 downvotes (78 upvotes). That's wierd - I checked other posts and they don't seem to have anything like that - I saw none in the double digits.
I might just have to keep a separate account for posting politics which is sad but necessary so that my posts/comments are ranked according to utility and not just downvoted by angry nerds. I'll probably make a post about this somewhere too.
Because your comment was related to what I had to say, and I also agreed with you. I did see a comment that echoed my criticism of the BBC lower down, but I hadn't seen it before I posted my comment.
I think some idiots/bots from another instance to do with a political topic did it lol. They've done it to a few comments. We haven't left reddit apparently.
Do you think lemmy admins could see the downvoters and check if they're using bots?
Btw, the West was involved in all of that. The French exported surveillance tech they use to surveil their own marginalised Muslim population. The Brits exported their 'Prevent system' that they use to harrass Muslim children and families, calling them terrorists.
China has now stopped the alleged human rights abuses according to the associated press (AP are CIA affiliated back from the Cold War).
I ignore all the politics from the BBC, though general news and entertainment, documentaries are all broadly fine. But they're *politically *compromised by state-funding and imo are blatantly corrupt.
To re-iterate PDF is a really, really bad format to use as input. If you absolutely must use PDF, then be prepared for an output ranging anywhere from decent to unusable, depending on the input PDF.
You should brush up on the history of the Middle East and colonialism, if you're going to say something like that.
The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299 according to google, and formally ended in 1922. We're only a hundred and one years away, about a single lifetime, from this empire, dimwit. And Turkey survives today as a regional power and a useful US ally.
You don’t deserve respect when you go out and harass and insult strangers. Being a refugee and insulting your host country is even worse in my opinion. Deport those snakes, they obviously miss home.
To which my point was the threat of deportation discourages them from speaking out about any abuses, or criticising wrongdoing as a normal citizen of the country ought to.
And: I’m concerned at what I see as an over-focus on social liberalism; it muddies the waters for the actual problem of poverty and marginalisation. It’s proven that people become less open to newcomers and ideas when their economic circumstances take a hit - and Europe has a racist tendency of shoving immigrants in poor neighbourhoods to keep them out of sight and poor. So in many cases we’re blaming the victims.
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Well, they downvoted unrelated comments and posts on my account. Which is an undesirable situation.
You're probably right that it can't be helped though.