My Support Forums - View Single Post - When it's okay for others to say or do something but not you

nonightowl · Jun 12, 2023, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by rdgrad15

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It makes it seem like people are choosing not to acknowledge something online or even something you brought up in real life just because it came specifically from you, they will gladly give someone else the acknowledgment if they post the exact same thing or state the same thing in real life.

Yeah, I'm starting to feel like not being the cool kid in high school again.

I go to Goodreads and they've added buttons to vote up or down on somebody's posts! It's only on certain screens thankfully. Honestly why is that necessary to put people down?? I swear I won't post in those screens. They made other changes to the site I don't like.

I even stopped writing reviews because I rarely get any "likes" after being on the site since 2012. But others can get HUNDREDS just from writing crap like "This book was awesome! I couldn't put it down." What nonsense is THAT??

That's not a real review.

The site that I go for cosmetics has a "helpful" and "not helpful" button. If you don't find something useful, does everyone have to know it, including the poster? Yelp does this too, which I long abandoned. Not all reviews even get counted, and I see the same votes of up/down there too.

Sigh---either in the real world or online, getting heard or acknowledged is brutal.