Please stop discussing upvotes and downvotes. Your last three comments have included references and it's repetitive. If it bothers you, why not join an instance that doesn't use downvotes?
Removing this per rule #2 - it is indeed sexist and encourages stereotypes. Feel free to rephrase and ask again.
For those who shared your thoughts and called out why this was problematic, thank you. I'm not always sure how to best handle something like this and your input helps.
People are helpful here so posts don't usually get ignored. With that said, each community should have the space to be what it wants to be. These comments are a clear signal that we want to go with open discussion questions.
Thanks for the input, all. We have a number of tips for finding communities and support in the sidebar. I'll remove these kinds of posts from now on so that we can focus on discussing interesting, open questions.
I'm on the fence about this kind of question - it's not open so it breaks rule #1. However, I got pushback last time I removed something similar. What's your preference on this kind of post?
It's a good question and you've gotten some good answers. I'm going to lock this as it is getting political and we don't have the bandwidth to mod it well.
This is more of a support question, related to using Lemmy. Please see the sidebar for a list of communities that offer support. Removing under rule #3.
This is more of a support question, related to using Lemmy. Please see the sidebar for a list of communities that offer support. Removing under rule #3.
This is more of a support question, related to using Lemmy. Please see the sidebar for a list of communities that offer support. Removing under rule #3.
While we haven't covered this topic in this community, it has been discussed exhaustively in other communities. Removing under rule #4.