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

rdgrad15 · Jun 12, 2023, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by nonightowl

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.

Yep I agree, it can be very brutal. It does make you feel like you’re back in school. Unfortunately those behaviors never truly end in adulthood, if anything it seems to get worse.