"Majority Rule" really resonates with me as a Reddit user

P.S.: I just started watching the Orville, so no spoilers for the rest of season 1, 2 and 3 please and thank you.

When I first started out on Reddit, I was downvoted a lot for having different opinions from the rest of the subreddit, and eventually, it came to a point where my posts are being flagged and removed, and when I spoke to the moderator, he told me my score was too low to post, and told me to higher up my score. So, I created a new Reddit account and abandoned my old one and started fresh, and I was more careful with what I posted, and I would occasionally post controversial posts from time to time, but most of the time, I post stuff that are pretty tame, and I post my fanarts too on fandom subreddits, which helps even out my score too.

Watching "Majority Rule" episode really brought up some awful memories of me being downvoted a lot. Because of the experience, I never downvote just because I don't like something, I only downvote comments that are directly insulting me, but I rarely downvote because I don't like being downvoted.

I'm glad our world isn't like that planet on the "Majority Rule" episode, but I think we are getting there though and it scares me. With Internet companies tying our digital selves to our real selves, like Facebook and Twitter, our upvote and downvote scores might be used to measure us up in the real world, which is a scary thought.