Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.
The hero we need etc
Give me some love too, everybody!
Actually, I think I downvoted myself on Reddit once, but this will be a first for Lemmy.
What was the reason on Reddit? ^^
I don’t remember the context, but IIRC I said something, and realised I was being seriously dumb later in the discussion, to the point that just crossing it out wasn’t enough. It was a long time ago.
Did you support Trump?
No. Supporting the “America First” guy as a non-American is a mistake that’s beyond even me. A few rare, “special” people make it, though.
I downvoted an old comment of money because I grew and changed and no longer acreed with the 19yo version of myself
Haha, that’s kind of funny. You really are a different person at different ages.
But other people might make similar incorrect comments, better that your comment with the reply that makes a correction float to the top (for people who sort by upvotes). The best solution is probably editing if you have the time and upvoting the reply. Similarly I’ll upvote something incorrect if I reply to it but downvote if I don’t have the time to reply.
I edit my comment, but still keep the original wrong one in the edit. I want to admit what I did wrong.
I think in that case I’d probably add an update to the comment. But downvoting yourself feels really honest somehow
No, because that’s dumb
Yeah if I realize I’m factually wrong or being a dick for no reason and it’s too late to shadow edit I’ll state as such and note to the parent comment I’m wrong and downvoting myself. It’s more mature than just deleting your comment, which fuels the fantasy that you’re not talking to real people and can just take back anything you say and un-say it. Getting downvoted or murdered by words and then just deleting your comment is kinda cowardly and doesn’t allow you to grow IMO. If you (I) cared what people think maybe you should have thought about it more before you said it.
I don’t agree that deleting what you said is cowardly. Most people here have seen how Redditors try and weaponize the downvote button and even if someone does apologize someone else can miss it and rehash the same counter argument.
There’s no growth there. It’s just tedious.
Most of the time it’s not even a real argument or an answer to a deep moral question just a semi controversial opinion like arguing Arch Linux is a good beginner distro.
Well said
Brilliant. I was doing something similar but I like your style more.
I see you like playing life on hard mode.
I tested it to see what would happen a few days ago, since there are some platforms where downvoting your comment causes it to become deleted. Nothing happened, so I just went about my way.
Never, because I’m a very stable geenius.
In front of other people, too
Perfect words
If I ever feel the need to downvote my own post, I would probably just as well delete it.
Yup
might as well keep my dumb comments up so I don’t make the same mistakes again
I like to do it always because it is worth two votes.
No!
No. If anything I’d edit my post to better reflect what I was trying to communicate.
No. If it was something worth for me to downvote, i wouldn’t post it in the first place.
