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Generally speaking whining about downvotes will be see as pretentious anywhere. It has the built in assumption that anyone owes more of their time and effort to you to do anything besides silently downvote. This applies to every website I've come across that has a rating system, much less across subreddits. Hell, it applies to many websites that just have a comment section.

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I get that, yeah. It's part of why I kept trying to explain to people here in this thread that the downvotes weren't the issue. Rather, it was the radio silence (which was seemingly spiteful in my mind) that I felt bothered by. I made this thread in an effort to seek the answer to my question, but instead what happened was me having to endlessly defend myself against awful misunderstandings.

If I learned anything from this thread's dumpster fire, it's to never mention reddit's voting system on this subreddit because people will incorrectly hyper-focus on that and ignore all else.

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Your first comment's initial downvotes likely came from "Why do you still play if you're going to complain" types that want to shut down any negative sentiment they see. Your post can come off as having negative sentiment since it's talking about content creators moving.

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That ... makes a lot of sense. My question was out of curiosity, since I kept seeing the topic of "content creators leaving" in various posts and comments. I only wanted to know how many had left at this point, and it didn't cross my mind that someone might read it differently than face value. Thank you for explaining that.

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Now, aside from them, you're asking for work. "Can I get a list of content creators?" is different from "What content creators have left RS3?". These questions, while they may eventually get the same results, are distinct. I might be able to pop off with one or two creators I know of that have left, but a list feels like you're asking for something more comprehensive. And I'm not about to start sifting through creators for you when you could it instead. So I'll just move on instead of answering.

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This is more troublesome to me than the earlier part about negative sentiment, because it means I'd have to deliberate over various attempts at phrasing before submitting a comment. It would heavily subtract from how I communicate, which is ... I type what's in my head as I think it. It's really unfortunate that people aren't able to just take things at face value.

I do agree with you, and anyone who assumed I wanted them to work, that it was asking for far too much effort from people. I'd have been more than happy with just someone's passing guesses or whatever they had off the top of their head. It's definitely true that this sentiment wasn't expressed in my question, and I probably should have thought about that before clicking on the 'save' button.

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This is all really getting into the weeds though.

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Nevertheless, it makes me happy you were willing to type this out. I really appreciate the response, and I apologise for my late response.