Money not being involved makes the downvotes make more sense though because downvotes don't cause as much harm on reddit as they do on a platform where downvotes impact income. Also, on reddit while some people do downvote for the wrong reasons, you're not supposed to downvote for no reason. There's specific reasons in the reddiquette for downvoting and "no reason" and "I don't like what you said" aren't the legitimate reasons stated in the reddiquette guidelines. Reddit seems to be getting worse for people downvoting for the wrong reasons though OR the communities I've spent more time in more recently compared to before are more prone to misusing downvotes (I think it might be a mix of the two). Regardless, I'm sure everyone would rather a downvote on reddit than on here and I would be more willing to downvote someone on reddit than on here because a downvote on reddit doesn't actively harm their income so I don't get your point with that sentence because "money isn't even involved" is more reason to be flippant with downvoting and money being involved is more reason to be careful with downvoting because the consequences of the downvote are harsher on here than on reddit.
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