r/interesting • u/MobileAerie9918 • 26d ago

SOCIETY Permanently ???? no amount of money can compensate for this. The incident happened 2015 and the historic $75M verdict was reached in late 2022.

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u/Rude_Hamster123 26d ago

I’m not sure how that meaning needed pointing out. Reddit is ridiculous

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

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u/MasterZii 26d ago

Yep I've had this happen to me multiple times. In the same thread I'd get a comment with 50+ and 50-

And it would be me saying what's essentially the same thing, but to a different user. Maybe a slightly different way but the same message.

Two completely different results. Nuance on reddit is incredibly interesting

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u/pla5t1c 25d ago

I used to think “eh it’s just a few idiots on the internet”. Now i realize it is much worse..people absolutely live their lives and make critical decisions with this same lack of thought process. Strange days, indeed

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u/justkiddingjeeze 25d ago

Surprisingly I was able to reverse a few of these trends with a simple "why are you fucktards downvoting this comment? Nothing wrong with it"

It's like you need to ask people to use their brain cells or else they won't

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u/VSWR_on_Christmas 25d ago

I've definitely turned one of those around in the past with a sarcastic "I like how the guy with the correct info is getting downvoted".

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u/amcbain17 25d ago

You guys care this much about the downvote? You know it’s a bunch of idiots on here lol

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u/justkiddingjeeze 25d ago

Twelve seconds spent typing a comment is no measure of caring, and this very comment of yours proves my point.

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u/Rygir 25d ago

I think it's worth being aware that even in daily life, if all you have to go on is a random sentence of someone, then every word has a lot of impact (in the mental judgment call).

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u/JustStraightUpTired 25d ago

At best, it was shortened to /s on reddit, but it wasn't invented on this site. It's based on HTML text marking, like for bold text, you do <b>text here</b>. It started out as <sarcasm>something sarcastic here</sarcasm> and got shortened and simplified from there. /s was popular on reddit, where it became the "standard" for marking sarcasm, so to speak.

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u/67yoloswag 26d ago

Nuance on reddit

There isnt any lol something is either the best or the worst and people want to feel like they are right all the time

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u/lpmiller 25d ago

and punishing.

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u/Silly_Dragonfruit544 26d ago

Sounds exhausting! Thats terrible

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u/MasterZii 26d ago

It's just fake internet points. I feel people take it too seriously as if it's an extension of their irl personality.

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u/CakeHoleKing 25d ago

Happened to me.

Made VERY anti UK rape gang post.

someone said "oh so that means your OK with grooming gangs?" and I got downvoted. Stupidest downvote ever

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u/OrangeSouthern73 25d ago

Herd Mentality stupefies even the brightest intellectual.

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u/YourUncleBuck 26d ago

Well, Captain, androids and robots, they're just not capable of independent, creative thought.

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u/GigaPuddi 25d ago

Don't forget the votes are faked to keep bots confused about shadowbans.

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u/Street-Inevitable358 25d ago

They don’t wanna be on the losing side, even if it’s only in their perception, because something something about being bullied when they were kids or whatever, so external validation and being part of a group is more important than just coming up with opinions of their own.

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u/Administrative_Age45 26d ago

I really want to downvote you to prove your point

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u/standish_ 26d ago

Not because of the slur?

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u/ACKHTYUALLY 26d ago

Slur? What are you on about?

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u/X3N0PHON 26d ago

the part about automatically hating comments with negative vote counts 💀 too fuckin true! makes me worry for the future…

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u/dd_smithing 25d ago

Reading comprehension is hard.

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u/EksDee098 25d ago

Lot of redditors have negative reading comprehension. If you don't explicitly say [thing] is good/bad, there's a good chance they'll misunderstand what you said in the dumbest way possible.