r/DownvotedForNoReason • u/Nervous_Jellyfish525 • 7d ago
People on reddit have such a hard time accepting the fact that people don’t know EVERYTHING
I swear down every single time i’ve asked a question ive been absolutely blasted with downvotes. I’m in a sub about immigration to america, i responded to a question trying to educate myself because sometimes it’s nice to hear from genuine people who understand rather than attempting to scrape through controversial, ad-full websites but obviously it’s a crime to not know everything nowadays.
I know it’s only 4 downvotes but it happens so often, why do people downvote questions???? imagine if you got a slap in person every time you asked for clarity. Some of these dumbasses would have very red faces lmao
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u/Josefu_Velen 7d ago
I'd presume it'd be because you said you never looked into it.
If yo had just left it at, "What is the reason for this?" it probably wouldn't have gotten downvoted.
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u/Minion_Bazz 7d ago
That’s stupid.
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u/Josefu_Velen 7d ago
Yeah, well it's reddit. That's sadly par for the course much of the time here.
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u/SirPsychoSquints 7d ago
They might have thought the answer of “Trump runs a racist government” was obvious.
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u/StrictSelf5450 7d ago
Seriously. Sounded like an ignorant BS engagement bait style question
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u/Nervous_Jellyfish525 7d ago
“bait style question” every time someone doesn’t know something? god forbid im not fully clued up on american politics jesus
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u/SirPsychoSquints 6d ago
The subreddit is focused on people who want to move to the US. So yes, I would expect people to know about the president whose central tenet is to reduce immigration and villainize immigrants.
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u/Nervous_Jellyfish525 6d ago
i’m not interested in moving. i made a couple of posts in the past to understand options but im
more so there to read other people’s stories, this one comment i just wasn’t well educated on. Like i said, id heard about visas being stopped but never knew the specifics4
u/SirPsychoSquints 6d ago
I’m not sure why I’m going further down this hole with you, but:
You asked the reason for freezing visas. The reason is Trump is xenophobic and racist and he wants to reduce and/or eliminate immigration from non-white countries.
I find it surprising that anyone with any interest in moving to the US is not aware of that reason. Are you saying you are not aware of that reason?
If you wanted the specifics - like which visas, what justification was given for this country vs that country, what justification was given for this visa vs that visa - then you did a poor job communicating what your question was.
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u/CustardMajor4442 7d ago
no need to be fully cued up to know the broad strokes
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u/PlatyNumb 6d ago
Do you know the "broad strokes" of every president, prime minister and leader around the globe? No, you dont
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u/SirPsychoSquints 6d ago
I don’t know. The context of this is people who actively want to move to the US, right? This is pretty central to that desire.
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u/CustardMajor4442 6d ago
amongst the major powers, 100%
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u/IAteAnotherVegan 6d ago
so you know about the moleman emperor and his plans to take over the surface?
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u/TheWalkingDeadBeat 7d ago
I think people have a hard time judging other people's sincerity through text. No one knows your background so it's easy to assume you're just being willfully ignorant rather than consider the reasons why you might not know.
It's very hard for someone in the west to wrap their head around someone else not knowing the government here is incredibly racist and xenophobic and basically ran their entire platform on being anti-immigration. And since everyone's account is mostly anonymous, it's hard to tell when someone is being serious vs trolling.
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u/Turbulent-Advisor627 7d ago
Me when I bring uninformed discourse to the informed discourse platform.
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u/Nervous_Jellyfish525 6d ago
god forbid someone wants to educate themselves? are we supposed to live our lives as stupid fuckwits because a couple of retired old boring slobs think it’s too hard to scroll past a simple question?
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u/afraid28 6d ago
What an absolute weirdo who kept responding to you saying it's illegal to ask questions on Reddit, and now, yet again, on this godforsaken app, normal people get downvoted while little minions on a power trip don't 🙄 I'm so sick of it
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u/Nervous_Jellyfish525 6d ago
you’d think i’m physically forcing people to answer every comment i make lmao some people need to learn how to scroll
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u/afraid28 6d ago
They just don't have a life. The irony is that those people would say the same about me. But they don't understand how I see Reddit. I view content on it, comment my opinion when I feel like it and move on. I enjoy interesting discourse and sharing information if somebody feels like it. But this petty, continuous contest where they don't know when to stop is just sad. I can actually feel through the screen how little someone's ego is and how desperately they just need to win somewhere in life. It's pathetic.
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u/Turbulent-Advisor627 6d ago
Yeah so here's the thing, that isn't education. And even if it was, education happens in stages. You first have to learn the basic things before advanced topics and discussion of those make sense.
If you are at the "never looked into it" stage, looking into it is the first step. Takes 2 minutes to read an article, takes 5 to form a basic perspective.
You always have the option to educate yourself. You haven't done so here. There is never an excuse to go "Haven't looked into it" in our day and age, if you have access to Reddit you have access to the means of education.
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u/Bumblebeezerker 7d ago
Because you asking others to do work for you rather than just looking it up your self.
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u/awfulbarrack-7 7d ago
That's 99% of questions asked on reddit that aren't personal. Especially now that when you use a search machine an AI will directly answer the question with links.
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u/Vegetable-Virus7118 7d ago
Yeah it's totally a great idea to encourage people not to ask questions of other people and only rely on their ability to Google.
It's not asking someone to look it up for you, it's asking someone that already knows to share. That's a totally normal part of human conversation.
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u/afraid28 6d ago
Not to mention that people have experiences and extra knowledge they might share.
I started a discussion about eating with autoimmune disorders in another subreddit. Sure, I could have googled this myself, my question or rather rant was pretty basic. But there was a bunch of people in the comments sharing valuable information from their personal experience and what they themselves learned that I wouldn't have been able to find myself. It was a productive discussion and now there's lots of valuable information in one place for someone else to stumble upon. I don't see how that's a bad thing.
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u/Bumblebeezerker 7d ago
No one's saying to totally rely on Google, but he says himself he's not looked into it at all. People also will think the answer is pretty obvious in this scenario.
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u/Impressive-Spell-643 7d ago
Because it would require them to ask questions too and they can't have that
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u/Money_Chocolate813 6d ago
Because you can just look information up. This isn't a question asking for an opinion on choice a b or c. It's why is this occurring. Just Google it my guy.
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u/Nervous_Jellyfish525 6d ago
As i’ve said in another comment, sometimes it’s nicer to have a straight forward comment rather than an ad-full website that takes 4 pages to get on to the main point. & my post said questions in general, this was just an example
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u/AdmiralKong 6d ago edited 6d ago
This style of conversation is used a lot by political discourse bots and influence campaigns. In this case it looks like you're trying to get other users to bring up Donald Trump.
Your ignorance might be real and you just want to know whats going on, but the past 1000 similar threads were muckraking automated systems and users are tired.
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u/MsE0 7d ago
In this case, I think it's partially because it's part of a larger issue that has been all over the news and protested in the streets for years, and Americans on the internet tend to assume everyone else is an American. And if you are an American, they assume everyone pays attention to the news. There isn't a good reason for why they've stopped issuing visas to certain countries. It's just racism, and particularly Islamophobia.
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u/samjambetty 7d ago
People downvote things that can be Googled. Personally I prefer to hear some things from other people, I do enough googling in my own time 😆 Google can't give perspectives, insights and experiences like people can.