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r/fivenightsatfreddys•
SpringTrapezoid

Why are theory posts almost always downvoted?

Speculation

I'm probably hated around here, but I don't really care. Anyways, this is just something I've been noticing lately.

Tons of theories are posted everyday, but in place of the standard "1 karma" thing, it's at zero. I just don't understand why people can't just take the ideas of other people in mind. We've been working at FNaF 4's story for months now and we don't have jack shit. You know why? Because pretty much any theory is dismissed.

Posted Nov 19, 2015, 11:24 PM UTC

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LivingTooBeDead•

Because people disagree with them.

Believe me; even if a theory is almost objectively correct because of lots of supporting evidence and nothing against it or something like that, it will get downvoted because people disagree with them.

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squidnow_amiibo•

Opinions? Different than mine? On the internet? BLASPHEMY!

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Alexlightning777•

"hey look a guy made a completely valid theory and provided lots of evidence, hmm, I can't disprove this, DOWNVOTE"

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LivingTooBeDead•

clearly the other person is scum and should be burned immediately

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squidnow_amiibo•

I'll go get the sword!

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LivingTooBeDead•

I'll get the mace

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SpringTrapezoidOP•

It's sad because that's pretty much a violation of Reddit's rules.

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LivingTooBeDead•

Pretty much. Unfortunately, because reddit sucks this way, no way to see who downvoted.

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Alexlightning777•

it's because there's always going to be that one guy who downvotes any theory they don't agree with

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SpringWeb•

that one guy all the theorists

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TheRealLAK132•

That one guy that is technically breaking the reddit rules...

Danm that one guy

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Mega_Goodra•

one

Oh, there's way more than one.

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SpringTrapezoidOP•

Very true.

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kenan89•

I think there is someone goin on a downvote brigade I think.

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ChrisWaltuz•

Because this damn community refuses to accept any change anymore since Fnaf 4 fucked the current acceptable theory out and had to start over

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ScienceBrah401•

Because some asshats can't grasp other theories, even if they are damn good.

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SpringTrapezoidOP•

It really sucks. Don't get me wrong, some theories are pure trash, but there have been some pretty golden ones lately. So golden, in fact, that you could crush a child's frontal lobe with them.

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ScienceBrah401•

Ha^Ha^Ha

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TheDayOfPi•

That joke was golden.

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SpringTrapezoidOP•

So golden, in fact, that you could crush a child's frontal lobe with it.

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MrFizzyDrinkz•

If you have an option different from mine you will be killed, does this answer your question?

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NightmareBalloonBoy•

Most people here are snobs who downvote anything that doesn't directly agree with them on everything.

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Spycrab_Killer•

People downvoted your OP for being snobby, not for disagreeing you silly goose.

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NightmareBalloonBoy•

Fair point, but there are also stubborn people who downvote OTHER, NON-SNOBBY THEORISTS.

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ClassroomConspiracy•

preach

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luke_pjo•

Well, most of the theories here nowadays are either:

A: plain bad, no evidence supporting them whatsoever.

B: already disproven multiple times, but people insist on posting them.

C: actual good theories. Those appear the least amount of times, though, when they appear, they are highly upvoted.

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Watch-The-Skies•

Usually the ones that get downvoted are ones with little to no evidence or too outrageous to be true. (i.e. It was Purple Guy caused the bite.)

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Kirble_Kollection•

because agreeing is evil for some reason, and if you don't share the same opinions with me you should die

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[deleted]•

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Drolykz•

I'm personally not interested in theories unless they're in the top 5 of "hot" but I never downvote them

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StuckOnTheWallAgain•

Butthurt

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SpringTrapezoidOP•

Except I've never posted a theory in here.

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GnarlyBellyButton87•

Unless you've stirred controversy in the community, no one is hated here.

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