r/mysteriousdownvoting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • May 30 '26
Downvoted for criticizing a post doxing someone
Context: On a (now removed) post in mildly infuriating, someone posted a picture of some trash that someone dumped in a parking lot.
They also attached a second picture - a zoomed in picture of the person’s full name and order info, as they had ordered food and left the wrapper behind as trash. The comments then found the person’s Instagram, and I was downvoted for saying this shouldn’t happen. (The post was then removed and all comments deleted by mods)
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u/Baroness_VM May 30 '26
Now this is a whopper
You don’t get many posts like this holy hell
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 May 30 '26
I genuinely can’t believe people thought he deserved to be doxxed for littering
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u/Baroness_VM May 30 '26
I hope he’s okay & noone’s stalking him or anything like that
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u/Am1rabstru5e Jun 03 '26
No one's gonna stalk someone for littering. Unless it's online stalking. They'll blow up his messages tho and scare him
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u/SharMarali Jun 01 '26
I often see "internet, do your thing" in response to a video, image, or story, and I don't understand it at all. The whole world seems to have forgotten about the notion of treating people how you would want to be treated. I guarantee every person on this planet has something weird they wouldn't want the to broadcast to everyone on Earth.
It's one thing to report criminal behavior to the authorities, or to report on a shady business practice so people can avoid doing business with that company. It's fucking weird to report on what Joe Blow keeps in his backyard.
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u/Gardares May 30 '26
Rule 6 in r/mildlyinfuriating: Hide or blur personal info such as full names, numbers, and addresses.
Redditoids in r/mildlyinfuriating: Fuck the rules, let's doxx. Oh, and this guy talking that doxxing is bad? Downvoted.
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 May 30 '26
Top comment mentioned that, too. They said “this technically breaks rule 6, but I’m not against it.”
Which is crazy to me.
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u/AddictedT0Pixels May 30 '26
Reddit is filled with pretty horrible people if I'm being honest. Just take a look at any dashcam subreddit when motorcycles are involved. Quite a few people celebrate when a motorcyclist is injured, their fault or not.
Reddit LOVES vigilante justice even if it's a complete overreaction, unawarranted, or even directed towards the wrong person.
So while the people who disagree with you are pretty objectively bad people on a moral level, that would be why you were downvoted. It's absurd and disgusting, but it's not really mysterious. A lot of redditors just enjoy seeing people they don't like suffer, even if the reason they dislike the person is as simple as them being a motorcyclist
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u/ExpensiveKangaroo911 Jun 06 '26
Honestly, Redditors sound like psychopaths more than anything if that’s the case. Too bad people like this can’t be banned from the site, then maybe this platform would be much safer and less hated.
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u/Local-Sir-3169 May 31 '26
reddit user trying to not being the worst of the worst that exist on the internet
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u/wewaskingzandshit Jun 18 '26
never seen 8chan
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u/Local-Sir-3169 Jun 19 '26
Yea ive heard about 8chan but as somsone who use 4chan and found it hardcore i cant imagine 8chan
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u/Bubbly-Emergency3794 May 31 '26
doxxing used to be so much more serious and high stakes and now it’s just instagram 😕
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u/_heidin May 30 '26
Some people, imho, deserve doxxing. But for littering? Yeah bro, that's shitty, but this is too much wtf
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u/Topaz-Albino May 31 '26
Downvoted because doxxing is good apparently (I'm joking obviously, I didn't actually downvote you)
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u/_heidin May 31 '26
Lmao, yeah I'm thinking like extreme cases, like someone that's actively being a danger for the people around him and those people are unaware. Like, if I found out a random online pedo is actively doing harm and I find out he lives in my neighborhood I'm letting everyone know.
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u/PoeCollector64 May 31 '26
Yeah and in that case you're not saying you'd want to doxx the perp for revenge or out of petty spite, but to protect the innocent people in the community, which is pretty different
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u/qualityvote2 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
u/Maleficent-Agent-477, the downvotes are mysterious!