Now you kind of want kids to run around with scissors …

Agree and I probably wouldn’t want to be on an instance that uses it to heavily. Still think it’s a good option to have for people that want to run a more curated instance.

That seems like something that is very reasonably within the discretion of an instance admin to do. Also pretty neat feature. Not a de-federation so you can still interact with users from that instance, but it doesn’t push your own users into communities on problem instances.

Underwater cages!

No, the screenshot is fake.

There was a link to the actual thread in the now deleted post. The text and images in the the screenshot have been edited.

So stop being so interested in me you damn paedo.

if tou don’t like

This guys shakespeares!

This guy text-to-speeches.

No idea, if there isn’t OP just has to write one I guess.

Again: to downvote somebody who expresses their views in good faith - that is a hostile act.

lol.

A micro-aggression, you might even call it.

That I agree with. Because a “micro-aggression” is a joke term used by PC principle in South Park that should never be taken seriously in the real world.

What it would not solve, BTW, is the problem of having the visibility of my content pushed down for everyone on the basis of subjective disagreement. I believe THAT is a real problem of downvoting that obviously nobody here wants to talk about.

That is not the problem, that is THE feature! You get to comment and everybody else get’s to vote on whether that comment was good or bad. If you don’t want your comments to be downvoted, write better comments.

If I am asking to be able to block subsequent comments by a downvoter on this thread, then no, that is not a universal block.

That is correct. If you ask to be able to block all comments by a downvoter everywhere then it is!

A feature that already exists - do you want it rolled back?

I’m not aware that this feature exists, but it if it does, then yes.

It literally is what you’re demanding, though:

Hide [ subsequent | all ] comments by users who have downvoted [ a post | a comment | anything ] by you [ in this thread | on this post | in this community | everywhere]

Ok, I’ll try, what do you need? eli12, eli8, eli5?

If they preferred not to see your comment, they’d block you. That’s how you not see someone’s comments.

Downvotes are an indication for other people telling them “hey, this comment/post might be wrong/off-topic/stupid/offensive/etc”.

Also people might downvote some of your comments, but upvote others. You know, because people have different opinions on things.

What you demand is: “I want to auto-block everyone that has ever disagreed with me on anything”, which is not a very healthy position.

I’m against features that undermine other features. Also I think votes shouldn’t be public in the first place.

Downvotes are a deliberately built in feature of this platform, so it would be really stupid to have a feature that punished people for using another feature.

If you’re this petty about downvotes maybe move to another platform.

There are Fediverse platforms without downvotes.

Then go use a platform that’s doesn’t use them. Bye.