Thresholded comments

In the last little while I've looked and found that many, if not all of my more recent comments are being put in threshold status in which I have to click the 'x comments under threshold' function to be able to see them. If I'm violating some specific rule somewhere, thats one thing. If people are doing it to express dislike of my viewpoint, that is a whole other distinct thing.

1. I don't understand why my comments keep getting thresholded.

2. It conveys a general impression of dislike towards me as a person.

This is not about trolling. I don't want to get into a troll topic and I'm not going to. What I do want to know is why my comments keep getting put under the threshold. Further, realize that some of my commentary is clearly (to me at least), meant in humor and not serious.

To be short and to the point; the fact that my comments keep getting put in the threshold is leaving a general sour taste in my mouth about it and I want to know why its being done.

People don't like your comments. Go figure. If this is happening often, you must be doing something wrong.

Abyssal_Bleakness said:
Further, realize that some of my commentary is clearly (to me at least), meant in humor and not serious.

Realize that perhaps your "humor" isn't funny or appreciated. Just saying; I haven't checked.

Or maybe you just have your comment threshold set too high. Change it.

I'm confused about who can and can't put comments on threshold and thought it was being done as a discrete way of telling me 'gtfo' from the general administration. Disliking and/or disagreeing with my commentary is one thing. Viewing me as a hated asshole is another.

The problem I have here is that I don't -understand- what specifically it is that I'm doing wrong.

Abyssal_Bleakness said:
I'm confused about who can and can't put comments on threshold

The threshold is your setting, and you can change it.

Abyssal_Bleakness said:
The problem I have here is that I don't -understand- what specifically it is that I'm doing wrong.

Read howto:comment. Note items like:

Do not post "funny" dialogues. Do not post comments with lines the characters in the picture are supposedly saying. There's nothing wrong with funny or witty comments, but those are neither.

Okay well in that case, it seems to me that this place tends to be exclusionist. Since the only possible explanation is that my commentary is being voted down into the 19th region of Naraka before it even gets read.

Some of it may well be me violating rules. That can change.

What isn't going to change is my opinion of voting my commentary down into oblivion instead of letting your dislike be known.

Thats a fucking bitch move, danbooru. No apology is coming.

If I say something that is genuinely offensive to you, TELL ME. If I say something that horrifies you outright, let me know. If what I say in regards to humor is obviously not funny -at all-, let me know. Because the fact that you find what I say

A - horribly offensive.
B - horrifying outright
Or C - Not funny -at all-

May well NOT BE OBVIOUS TO ME.

It's obvious to you now (if not exactly why), that's why you made this thread.

Don't take comment rating so seriously. It doesn't even show up on your user page or anything, so why care? People (i.e. Priv+ accounts) just don't like your comments. That's it. If you study the offending comments closely, you may be able to figure out a pattern and improve yourself.

If you can't do that, set your comment threshold to something like -99 and forget about it... assuming you aren't obnoxious enough for it to become a bannable offense.

Don't take comment rating so seriously. People will down vote your comments because:

1. They disagree with what you posted
2. You posted a massive wall of text that is an eyesore.
3. They're trolled

or my personal favorite

4. You just post crap comments.

Don't take it to heart, people of the internet are very fickle.

In closing.

1. I have an opinion and a brain which can summon the facts or logical reasoning to support it. I don't type out long opinions so I can be ostracised and have my comments voted down into oblivion by fucking MORONS who aren't even going to TRY and read it.

2. Threatening me with an obvious statement like that, (you specifically raisingK), isn't going to correct my behavior or cause me to feel any remorse for my behavior whatsoever. Neither is the threat of banning from a mod or anyone else. The absolutely certain only way period that my behavior will change is if I feel a distinct need to change it. I have to WANT to get along with the general populace, thats the only thing that has ANY CHANCE of changing my behavior.

Punishment won't work, I'll leave rather than submit myself to it. Threatening just makes me hate the person who threatened me.

3. I want to fit into the group. I don't wish to be marginalized.

Number 3 should not be taken to mean

'I'm going to reverse my whole personality so I can get along with the general population'.

Thats not what I mean. What I -do- mean there is that I -do- want to get along with the general populace of this site.

Assume that if I see something that I think is either A, dead ass wrong, or B, personally offensive to me in a way that merits a response, your going to get a response. It may be a polite and well-reasoned response, it may well be a vicious and mean spirited asshole response.

I reiterate: I don't want to be marginalized, and I do (currently) wish to get along with the general populace.

And I do care that my comments are being voted down into oblivion because it sends me the message that I'm -not- getting along with the general populace for whatever reason, presumably something specific to each person who voted them down.

I'm not a troll neither is it my intention to create drama. I put this out there to let it be known. Any construction of what I say to make me look like a troll is intentional and deliberate on the part of the person doing the construction.

You (danbooru in general), don't know me. I'm a Nietzschean Nihilist (and no I don't claim that lightly, I actually read the german philosophers works and know what the fuck I'm talking about) that normally doesn't give a fuck about a god damn thing and typically feels absolutely zero remorse. However, when I found a group that I saw as having a chance of accepting me, I cared about that because it benefits me to care.

You bring me dislike, I'll throw it right back in your god damn face. Don't expect me to try and be politically correct or weak in the backbone department. I'm going to say what I mean to say and unless you are someone I have an active feeling of friendliness towards, I'm probably not going to care about your feelings.

I hadn't seen any of your comments previously, so I hadn't voted on them, but about a noticeable portion of your most recent 20 comments are either 1) silly meme stuff ("move dick"? Really? Really?) or 2) "funny" dialogues, both of which are called out specifically in howto:comment.

So, it's likely nothing personal, and if you don't want to get rated down, don't make comments like that. Your Death Pisawaha comments didn't get voted down. Your comment on Faust didn't get voted down. Not even all of your comments that ended in a self-provided rimshot got voted down.

this place tends to be exclusionist

Well, yes, Danbooru tend to be elitist bastards. Everyone in this thread has said it, though: don't take things so seriously. You don't need to defend yourself with 4KB of philosophy because people voted some of your comments down. Also, pretty sure nothing in this thread was meant to be a threat. Chill out, maaaaaan. There's a lot of people here. Not everyone is gonna like you, and not everyone is gonna hate you, but there will probably be some of each. That's life!

I can obey the rules. I just don't like feeling like I'm being kicked out of a place before I've even had a chance to be around for very long. It annoys me greatly.

Cmon. 'Move dick' was funny. I thought it was funny. But in most instances when I say something intending it to be funny, I'm speaking from the viewpoint of a fully immersive idea. That is, I see images and hear sounds along with what I mean to say as a joke that support the joke. So sometimes what in my mind is hillarious, no one in the 'audience' of people who see it will see or understand as I do.

I'm not an asshole, nor am I a bad person. I just dislike feeling shunned rather greatly.

Abyssal_Bleakness said:
I'm not an asshole, nor am I a bad person. I just dislike feeling shunned rather greatly.

Well, I am an asshole, and quite possibly a bad person, and I most definitely think you need to be shunned.

You take this shit far too seriously. Loosen up or just go away.

I'm not going to get into a pissing match with an internet tough guy who would probably shit his pants if I came knocking. Mind your own god damned business and if you think I need to be shunned, shun me, fencedude. Your company isn't wanted.

I think you're just overthinking this, full stop.

As a long-time user, the only comments I will upvote are ones that have some information directly relevant to the content of the post - e.g., explanation of an in-joke, artist's commentary, etc. That is because those things are the main purpose behind the comment system. Everything else is either tagging discussion, or mere flotsam. I make it a point to downvote any and all such flotsam that pops above the +1 score threshold.

Your comments may be witty or well-thought-out, but they're still not exactly on-topic, either. That's just the way it is.

Abyssal_Bleakness said:
I'm not going to get into a pissing match with an internet tough guy who would probably shit his pants if I came knocking.

This is pretty much the definition of "taking this shit far too seriously"

Only one person in this thread has been threatening. His initials happen to be "AB".

Interesting, no?

There is a fair possibility you are right, sgcdonmai.

I initially thought that down-voting was being systematically done by moderators and other administration figures as a means of discretely urging me to leave. Thats why I created the topic in the first place. I don't have any desire whatsoever to get into a trolling match with a bunch of shitwits and I'm not going to.

Abyssal_Bleakness said:
There is a fair possibility you are right, sgcdonmai.

I initially thought that down-voting was being systematically done by moderators and other administration figures as a means of discretely urging me to leave. Thats why I created the topic in the first place. I don't have any desire whatsoever to get into a trolling match with a bunch of shitwits and I'm not going to.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now thats some fucking comedy. We don't care about you that much. I don't care what you do, I just want you to stop making long, rambling, passive-aggressive forum posts.

You don't upload anything, so the only way I encounter you is on the forum, if you just stop posting, no one would be bothering you.

Abyssal_Bleakness said:
I initially thought that down-voting was being systematically done by moderators and other administration figures as a means of discretely urging me to leave.

Such discretion is not exactly one of Danbooru's priorities. If an admin wants you gone enough to do anything, you'll be banned, not kindly encouraged to leave. This would most likely be after a significant amount of warning occurs, mind, but that's the way things roll around here.

Are you going to start shunning me any time soon, Fencedude? I'm not going anywhere and I'll make my posts as long and rambling and passive aggressive as I want them to be, if I should feel the need to do so. This is reality. You aren't going to harass me into leaving, nor are you going to control my actions whatsoever. It is you who is looking like a moron. And further, for the most part the things I would be uploading can't be uploaded here because this gallery isn't intended for them, namely because they are either for the most part not Asian or not appropriate under the violence guidelines. I'm going to be here until I want to leave or get banned. Get fucking used to it.

To respond to the original question, all comments start with an invisible score of zero. If your comment threshold is set at zero, then you will see all comments with a zero score or above. If ANY MEMBER of the site decides for ANY REASON AT ALL to vote any comment down (including clicking the vote down button by mistake, which does happen), those with a threshold of zero will suddenly see those comments as "below the threshold." So if you continue to feel that one member voting a comment down continues to convey a general dislike towards you, then that is your right. It's also quite thin-skinned and illogical.

This thread was barely on topic for the Danbooru forum to begin with, and it is well off-topic now. Somebody with the power to do so, please close it. And for the love of god and sanity, I hope there are no more posts in it after mine.

Edit: corrected - any member can vote comments up or down, not just priv+.

As I stated QUITE FUCKING CLEARLY, evangeline, I thought I was being down-voted by the administration. I've said that over and over and over again. Fuck what the hell you think. This is fucking reality, and I'm the one whose in a position to say what I meant and what I thought. I meant this topic to be a relatively simple solution to a problem that was bothering me. It rapidly turned into a bunch of internet shit-eaters attacking me.

I don't know how the hell else to say this, so I'll say it ONE MORE DAMN TIME.

I DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE DYNAMICS OF THE VOTING SYSTEM BECAUSE I DON'T TYPICALLY USE THE VOTE UP OR VOTE DOWN FUNCTIONS. Therefore my conclusion was erroneous.

Zero percent remorse, zero percent sorry for my behavior.

I'll leave willingly rather than re-write my whole god damn personality, since it seems like every time I post anything, AT ALL, someone decides to be a god damn internet asshole who OBVIOUSLY didn't have their ASS BEAT enough times to learn some common respect.

And don't even START saying it was me who brought the trolling to a head, because it wasn't. If you scroll up to the top of this topic, you will see quite CLEARLY if you have EYES and can read god damn English, that I started this topic respectfully asking a very simple question that had no ulterior motives and no hint of purposeful trolling.