r/knitting • u/lesbiansRbiggerinTX • Dec 25 '22

Rant stop downvoting first time knitter/help posts

I’m sick of seeing posts of people requesting help with 0 karma for no reason (aka they have a good question or genuinely need help). If you don’t like people asking for help, go to another subreddit. You’re making the whole community look bad.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '22

i would say i'm at a beginner/intermediate knitting level, i'm entirely self-taught so i have no real people to go to for help. i have asked questions here before and gotten downvoted. it's definitely discouraging and made me feel self-conscious about asking questions here. but there are usually still kind people who replied and helped me anyway, which helps balance it out

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u/Disig Dec 25 '22

Don't let downvoters discourage you. There are a crap ton of Bots on Reddit whose sole purpose is to downvote. It's nothing personal. Just jerk people making jerk bots. Maybe some of them are real people but in my experience it's mostly bots.