• XIIIesq@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That comment received 17 downvotes but the only person willing to reply deleted their comment.

    The comment seems rather silly and I’d wager that the writer is making a satirical comment about the repetitive nature of Lemmy’s narrative rather than legitimately equating people that dislike Musk to the Ku Klux Klan. If anyone was willing to engage the writer rather than just burying the comment then it’s possible you may have seen that.

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      3 months ago

      So the comment is silly and you argue about its interpretation. In other words it did not add anything productive to the conversation?

      When I see someone with vague complaints about downvotes and no specific elaboration when pressed, that’s a warning sign that they likely weren’t engaging in productive dialog in the first place and want to blame “the hive mind” for no one liking their “hot take”.

      If anyone was willing to engage the writer rather than just burying the comment then it’s possible you may have seen that.

      Not the responsibility of everyone else to try to engage to see if a commenter has a relevant taking point and coax it out of them. It’s up to the commenter to make that clear in the first place.