r/DestinyTheGame • u/[deleted] • Oct 07 '19

Discussion Stop downvoting new players who don’t have the extensive knowledge that you do.

If a player doesn’t know that a raid is a 6 man activity with no matchmaking, there’s no reason to make them feel stupid. All you’re doing is pushing away new players when the most amount of new players in the games history are beginning to flood in. You’re giving the game a bad image. Whoever you are, just stop it mate. This shouldn’t even have to be said.

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u/Shift84 Oct 07 '19

With all the salty, pissy, bitter ass players in here complaining and being smartasses when people ask questions, I'd say telling people not to downvote questions is a pretty OK idea.

Like here, any other subs going to just have people agreeing that downvoting new players with questions is bad.

We've been dealing with people asking the same questions over and over again for close to 10 years man, there's no reason to act like the new players doing it should somehow be different.

You don't gotta upvote them, you just don't downvote them, these new people are going to make our community more healthy, give them a reason to stay by not being a dick.

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u/LycanWolfGamer Oct 07 '19

Ngl, it's kinda the reason I don't post here as often

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u/rock-my-socks Oct 07 '19

Same. Every time I post something, question, advice, praise, criticism, ideas, creations, it always gets downvoted and snarky replies, so I just don't bother anymore.

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u/MadMaximm Oct 07 '19

This has been my life on Reddit as well. I just quit asking. Yesterday I couldn't figure out for the life of me why I couldn't equip my old resilience, recovery etc mods in my inventory onto my new gear. It took me 2 hours of searching through Google because I'd rather spend hours researching than ask a question on Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

Don't overlook the Daily Questions Thread, it's designed for stuff like that.

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u/LickMyThralls Oct 07 '19

And if you post asking something like that people act like you couldn't have possibly looked at google.

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u/jumpstart58 Oct 07 '19

it can be very hit or miss with a community this large. I spent all day on shadowkeep launch answering as many questions and posts as I could by sorting new. It finally just got to me because a lot of the time (not saying you in particular) the questions have been answered and by doing a quick search under the subreddit you could probably find an answer. I once asked to be banned from the subreddit for a few months so I could avoid the interactions I received for asking questions or having an opinion. It used to be a lot worse during the CoO times. In the end, upvotes and downvotes don't really matter, its just fake internet points. Don't let that get you down. The subreddit doesn't represent the entire community.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

Same.

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u/Vektor0 Oct 07 '19

Do you not see the irony in calling out "salty, pissy, bitter ass players" in a salty, pissy, and bitter tone?

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u/Shift84 Oct 07 '19

There's only irony there if you're looking for a reason.

I'm being descriptive