Asklemmy

why do these replies keep having to be this kind of gotcha's

In two cases in a row, your first inclination has been to claim persecution instead of any "hey, why might people be disagreeing with me?" Maybe, instead of defaulting to "I am correct, why are these people voting incorrectly?" think about how your actions, comments and posts are appearing to others?

I don't post in c/support community, nor am I really inclinced to read much more of their post history. (Though the community does say to send bug reports to a specific site rather than create a post.)

Instead of sending a bug report in, you've made a very short, not particularly descriptive post without examples, without mentioning what client you're using to browse, not saying when (did this happen during a ddos attack?) This is pretty non helpful from any tech support standard.

So, in my own support work, I would be annoyed if I received this because it means instead of giving me anything useful, I have to coax information out of the client as I would a child.

As to the wider "why are people downvotint/being negative?" I mean, your FIRST reaction to negativity is that everyone else must be a hive mind. Instead of looking for any culpability, you've just determined everyone else must be wrong and crazy. That's more than a little insulting and speaks to a persecution complex. It's silly when trump does it, it's sillier when you do it.

You've basically accused the Lemmy community of being too dumb for independent thought simply because sometimes your comments are downvoted or disagreed with. Not only is that impressively childish it's incredibly insulting. No wonder people are primed to disagree with you! I don't imagine your comments are randomly being downvoted, I imagine you are similarly missing social cues or otherwise being, possibly completely accidentally, a complete dingus.

Instead of accusing everyone else of being too stupid for independent thought, maybe consider what in your behaviour is provoking such a reaction. And be grown up to admit that not everything you say will be upvoted and some of it, will, gasp be downvoted.