Are you right-wing yourself ?

@KimberlyWilberLIgt Yeah, but I'm so far right that the regular left and right look similar from where I stand.

@KimberlyWilberLIgt Thoughts? Am I a crackpot or is this biased or both?

@skibidist This is a great example, thanks for the insight into your thought process. For the purpose of this question, do you judge your comment about fluoridation in that thread to be “downvoted disproportionately” on manifold? (+4, -4)

if so, I feel this market might be an easy buy.

This market isn’t about whether you’re right, it’s about measuring whether uncommon viewpoints that get downvoted by a majority are met with an unfair level of disagreement. I don’t think many folks believe your views on fluoridation, so I’m not surprised to see a higher split of downvotes, regardless of whether you’re right or wrong. For better or worse, people tend to downvote points of view they disagree with, so having a minority viewpoint of any kind puts you at a natural disadvantage regarding internet karma points. Whether you perceive that as unjust is of course up to you.

(I personally feel dislike buttons will make manifold worse since they encourage this sort of anxious self-reflection/second-guessing)

@KimberlyWilberLIgt Yeah, I would say that comment was disproportionately downvoted when contrasted with the one above (10, 0). Interesting that you attribute the downvotes to the particular comment about fluoridation and not the one on covid/vaccines.

To resolve it, I will want to see more data points as well as other people with right-wing views being downvoted. Otherwise, I cannot tell for sure it's about the views and not e.g. about my style.

@skibidist It's an echo chamber thing - these people get into communities where everyone else is equally (or more) stupid and they only upvote moronic ideas like "there are scientific concerns about fluoridation" as if a single one of them has ever read a scientific paper beyond the first three words, thus creating a feedback loop. The reason they downvote your comment (which can actually be considered left-wing, as the right wing is currently focused on a culture war and a denial of science) is precisely because it doesn't fit with their echo chamber and causes cognitive dissonance (where a person is discomforted when they recieve new information that doesn't fit in their current understanding of the world) so they reject it outright without checking facts.