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THE /S IS ALWAYS NECESSARY
I don't know how anyone could live through the last decade and not see how important it is to denote when you're being sarcastic. "It ruins the joke" is preferable over it ruins society. Without the S idiots will read what you wrote and think there's people out there who actually support their idiotic ideas
I'm telling you EWOKS ARE REAL, PEOPLE
When you're so insecure you have to boost yourself twice with your main account and an alt
Bzzzt. Incorrect
On Kbin, in addition to up and downvotes, there is the Boost option, as seen in the picture.
If you are looking at these comment threads on Kbin/Mbin, when a comment/post is 'boosted,' it is automatically moved up higher in the thread, similarly to if it had been upvoted a lot.
Lemmy does not have Boosts, and so neither do any of the Lemmy clients on desktop/mobile.
Lastly, on Kbin you can look at the 'Activity' on a post which lets you see who upvoted, who downvoted, and who Boosted, which is what is shown in the picture.
I'm calling this guy out for being insecure and Boosting his own opinion to the top for visibility, despite the fact that he's just parroting an already popular opinion in this thread.
Edit: also lol, he unboosted his post at the time of me writing this comment. But the picture captures the original tomfoolery. Also I checked his profile and that guy regularly Boosts his own comments, but I bet he removed a bunch of those by now too.
Why would kbin let you move your own comments visibility up? Is it like paid-for thing?
Not a paid for thing, anyone can do it. As far as I can tell, it was just a feature Ernest (Mr Kbin Sir Guy Creator) programmed without much thought. So it's just a weird unique thing that Kbin can do.
Dude you're grasping at straws. I'm sure you think you're a genius, but you're not. You're wrong about this, but nothing anyone says could ever convince you if it.
Dude, you're in the picture.
Oh i absolutely boost my own comments because it's bizarre that it isn't done automatically like every other site with voting in existence does. What i don't do is use an alt account to boost it a second time