Why is being anti-mask a conservative ideology? Most of the people I know are "right wingers" and are not anti-mask. Then to jump to the hyperbole of saying people that call anti-maskedness idiocy (it is idiocy) want anti-maskers to die? It reeks of the false idea that all humans are right wing or left wing. Totally false dichotomy. Just for instance, you frequently cite bs to claim masks are bad - even repeatedly make false claims about the research after you've been called out on it (usually because you weren't paying very close attention and lump everything together into a "they" that tells you stuff)
This is some pretty nasty stuff, man. I hope your next post gets back to your more usual quality
If you think someone is worth taking the time to debate, why downvote their post and comments? That's not very sporting of you.
@edicted is worth a great deal. He's an excellent part of Hive and I'm always happy to talk with him. That's why I was following him. I appreciate his insight and way of thinking. This post has a particular issue that I don't think should be rewarded - if I had a huge stake, I'd probably worry more about percentages. If it was making a big impact on his earnings, I'd remove it for sure - heck, even if the dv just bugs him, I'll remove it. It also won't impact his reputation
For me, that downvote says "foxon is on record as seeing this and giving it a thumbs down". It's not a thumbs down on @edicted. Not going through all his posts or comments or anything. The issue we've been discussing has been growing on his posts more lately. Not calling for mass downvoting or a boycott on him or anything like that 😄
If it is unsportsmanlike, do feel free to take me to school sir. It's nothing bothering me if someone finds me a bit annoying, but I don't want to be a jerk
In my opinion, downvotes are for adjusting rewards with the goal of disincentivizing spam and other abuse.. Expression of disagreement through open and honest discourse precludes the need of using them. For me it harkens back to a more web 2.0 mindset. Clearly you were both engaged in healthy debate, so I felt their use was completely unnecessary within that context.
Of course, if that is some understood signaling mechanism between you, my opinion doesn't really apply. Nevertheless, to the casual onlooker, a healthy exchange with downvotes applied in disagreement looks a bit petty. This is how I interpreted it, and I normally bring it up when I see it, because I love to see healthy debate. It's something I want to foster here.
This is probably accurate. Removed the downvote. The record from comments is clear about what I'm not supporting from the post which makes the dv redundant anyway.
Thank you for your time and effort
I appreciate your consideration, and you're welcome!
The downvote is 100% warranted and let's me know the seriousness of the issue right off the bat. I interpret it more symbolically than actually a reward disagreement.
Although the downvote, unfollow, letting me know he unfollowed, and removal of a witness vote in combination with some other actions also tell me that this is an emotionally charged reaction.
Well at this point I can be pro-mask and anti-multiple masks.
I've been given so many options.
This post had a lot of topics in it, and you are focus-firing a very narrow laser at it. More than half of the content here is about trust (or lack thereof) and the complete failure of the system mixed with toxic cancel culture and extremely counterproductive negative reinforcement.
The word "die" appears one time in the original post, and that is in reference to the abysmal safety standards and lack of long-term testing for experimental vaccines that apparently don't even grant immunity, let alone give us the ability to remove our masks. It should be very alarming to everyone that compliance keeps getting more and more strict while nothing is being taken off the pile.
Got the vaccine? Good! Now keep wearing a mask and stay 6 feet away at all times. What? Why?
So you were referring to the kind of death that doesn't involve dying?
This stuff is what plays on people's paranoia and promotes the need for violence. By combining a litany of misinformation with the idea that "they" will harm you if you live in fantasy land, you create a false narrative. The internet bogey man is not going to come to life and start murdering people. Pointing at that truth and logic matter is not the same as calling someone a Nazi. Calling an idea ridiculous is not the same as calling for death. Of course calling Trump supporters evil is silly, but the hyperbole you added to it in the context of the rest of the article is completely off base
Not sure why this is thrown in, but sure, I'll try to help you out with this one (you ignore me all the other times I try to explain this stuff to you, so I have no reason to believe this time will be any different).
Having the vaccine greatly increases the chance that the infection will be removed in your system. It isn't instant fairy magic - if someone huffs disease into your mouth, then you turn and spray it on the person next to you, you still spread the disease - even though you didn't get sick. You can even be infected with covid - vaccination doesn't stop the infection, it enables the body to fight the infection. Someone with a vaccination can still spread the disease