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Do you only use it to get someone's attention when parked and waiting to pick them up or do you also use it to signal to other drivers that they did something unacceptable in traffic such as cutting you off? Do you get out of your car for every traffic annoyance and go over and talk to the other driver or do you just indicate your dislike of their driving via the horn or flipping them the bird? Think about how you use your car's horn and figure out if it matches with what you think the downvote button is for.

Do you only use it to get someone's attention when parked and waiting to pick them up or do you also use it to signal to other drivers that they did something unacceptable in traffic such as cutting you off? Do you get out of your car for every traffic annoyance and go over and talk to the other driver or do you just indicate your dislike of their driving via the horn or flipping them the bird? Think about how you use your car's horn and figure out if it matches with what you think the downvote button is for.

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[–] [deleted] • 13 pts

To alert a driver that I'm there so they don't crash into me and kill me.

[–] • 5 pts

Seriously this is so self-evident I can't believe OP asked it. Car horn as a "I disagree" button, hahahahahahahaha

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Yeah well, similar to downvotes, a lot of retards really do use a horn like that I guess.

[–] • 1 pt

Yep but that's not it's intended purpose.

[–] • 0 pt

Car horn is a disagree button if that's what someone wants to use it for. If someone honked there horn whenever they damn wanted to then what, they can just be arrested and have there license suspended?

Doesn't sound like freedom to me and neither does telling me what I can or cannot do with my buttons or horn.

[–] • 0 pt

Ok then go sit in your driveway and honk your horn all night, see how that works out patriot.

[–] • -1 pt

You're not being honest. You're only putting this response to virtue signal that you don't honk at bad drivers (which I'm sure you do IRL) and to justify your position on the downvote button.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

I never honk, I've always thought it was for fags and women.

[–] • 1 pt

So if some idiot is sitting infront of you at the lights as it's turned green and they are clearly not paying attention and holding you up you wont honk them to get them moving and risk you and everyone else missing the green light entirely out of some arbitrary principle?

[–] • 2 pts

I’m not kidding, I’ve never honked my horn once other than maybe to tell somebody to hurry up like a friend who is taking too long to come downstairs. I’ve never used it while driving.

[–] • 0 pt

I thought I was the only one ...

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

So when a paki scum pulls over on the highway to pick up his friend (who's 150 feet up the road from where this fucking paki fuck parked) and waits there for 3 minutes, you don't honk? Even when the friend is standing AT A FUCKING TURN OFF where this inbred piece of shit who shouldn't even be on our continent coiuld have turned in and not blocked traffic?

[–] • 0 pt

What if they got a "Hitler is bad" bumper sticker? Do you get out and tell them they're going to be any day now?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Um, MOST drivers only honk when it seems the other driver doesn't see them. I think at most 10% of drivers with anger issues use it when annoyed or angry at a bad driver.

OP needs help if he thinks this is normal.

[–] • -1 pt

You need to stop living in fantasy land. Today was one of the rare times I used my horn to alert someone they were about to hit me. By the time I used it I had already avoided the collision so it defacto became a "fuck you" horn. Most often I use my horn when sitting behind someone texting at a green light, just give it a little chirp to get their attention. The most satisfying is to really lean into that horn button for 10 seconds or more while some junkie hobo forced you to screech to a stop while they crossed slowly on your green light.

Get outta here with horns are only for avoiding accidents. That shit is a fantasy. Even my sweet old lady of a mother honks at people for being retards.

[–] • 1 pt

you're a honkler!

[–] [deleted] • 7 pts

exactly, we don't always have time to argue with every tom dick and harry, sometimes a quick down vote can suffice.

[–] • 2 pts

Or you could ignore it instead of being petty.

[–] [deleted] • 7 pts

it's not being petty, it's voting, like a poll..so people can get a feel of what the public thinks...do you need a safe space, and a participation trophy?

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

Do you need public polling on every opinion, or can you just think for yourself and/or engage in discourse?

Are you faggots all like 15 years old on this site? I posted on message boards for years that never had any upvote or downvote shit. People just talked. Everything in life wasn't some Instagram popularity contest. Fuckin zoomers.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

huh just use the block user button if they are to spicey for you, but dont hide it under downvotes, its literally creating a safe space.

[–] • 0 pt

The downvote button is specifically to censor someone's ideas. It's ok to censor spam, or off topic because it wastes peoples time. Just because you disagree with an idea doesn't mean "ergo it's spam". Look, I disagree strongly with refugees like yourself trying to come into our home and change our culture. Notice that I didn't downvote you though.

[–] • 4 pts

You use it to signal your presence to other drivers when you're concerned they might be unaware of your presence or unaware that you are going to be moving. If you don't blow the horn until someone has done something that you disapprove of then it's too late for it to have any benefit.

[–] • 3 pts

I just enjoy pissing people off.

Fuck other people.

[–] • 2 pts

Point is.

If it's free speech then maybe I use my horn for fun.

Maybe I use it cause I'm pissed.

Maybe I use it just to annoy the fuck out of someone.

Maybe I use it to alert an idiot to my presence.

But I am FREE TO USE IT HOW I WISH.

A policy, by definition polices. POLICED speech is not free.

[–] • 2 pts

It takes WAY less time to tell someone they are a retard with a downvote than to type it out, and most retards don't deserve the effort.

[–] • 1 pt

I have a though...

[+] [deleted] • 1 pt
[–] • 1 pt

I have never had to use my horn ever in the 12 years I have been driving.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I'm not surprised the niggers here who want downvotes are the same niggers and women who blare their horn every five minutes on the road.

Actually it is a decent analogy. Faggots blare their horn and act tough on the road, but they would never do that shit on foot, face to face.

[–] • 0 pt

No, we just understand UI. Whoever decided to make the downvote button here behave not like a downvote button is an idiot.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yeah that criticism I agree with. It should be removed if it's not going to function like a normal button.

[–] • 0 pt

The reason I don’t like downvotes is because if you made somebody mad enough they would keep your page open and downvote everything you post for days. The reason I do like downvotes is for faggots like goldenhead who literally would spam their schizo shit and he somehow had access to dozens of old accounts with enough CPP to just constantly spam shit all day long. After he was called out everyone recognized him, just downvoted him and he left the website. This time around we had to fucking doxx him. Have you seen his doxx by the way? 41 year old who lives with his mom. Parents are rich boomers who constantly have been making businesses and own multiple houses. He’s never been employed in his life but tried making a company named “Republic Instantly” in 2012 and I think he just gets money from his dad. His dad actually looks like a normal cool dude but fuck man I kind feel bad because he’s actually schizophrenic.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Yeah we got constantly downvote cucked by boomers on Voat lol.

But hey it looks like the Poal solution has a lot more of a bite to it, that shit's fucking hilarious.

[–] • 0 pt

They already said spammers should get down votes. It sounds like the mods would be proactive if you bring it to their attention.

Perhaps they will clarify if i'm wrong.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

prolly drive a prius

[–] • 2 pts

A Prius honked at me the other day. It went HENK HENK and I couldn’t stop laughing. The driver was wearing a mask. He gave me a dirty look as he sped off.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

No, I drive one of those IQ smart cars that you can tip over, I always wear a respirator military grade mask at all times including while sleeping and driving and never take my hands off 10 and 2! :)

No but for real for some reason some people just fucking suck at driving (not talking about you guys). My father when I was growing up never once used his horn either, neither does my brother, we just don’t get into situations where we need to. My sister and mother on the other hand.... Jesus Christ for some reason driving for them is like rage porn or something. Constantly bitching about every little thing happening on the road and constantly getting into minor accidents or close calls. Being with them in the car while they are driving is just dangerous and they don’t understand that they are the danger. I tell them “dude I never have problems like this while driving, maybe it could just be you?” They always flip out and rage at everything while driving. The men in my family have been in a total of 1 accident between all 3 of us in the past 15 years and it was because my father literally was sitting in the turn lane and some dumb nigger smashed into him, 100% nothing he could do cut and dry the nigger’s fault. My sisters and mother get into an accident (minor) like every few months. Hitting a mailbox, backing into somebody, tapping the fender of somebody. It’s insanity. Women can’t drive properly I don’t think.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

After spending a few years driving with the dickheads inside the beltway I can't even stand the sound of horns anymore. Light turns green and.1 seconds later 3 people are honking.

[–] • 0 pt

Dude for some reason spics just honk all the time for no fucking reason. Why?

[–] • 1 pt

I use it when someone fucks up, cutting me off like you note is a grand example. Perhaps they didn't realize I was there, perhaps they didn't realize they were wrong.

[–] • 1 pt

That's how I use the downvote button.

[–] • 0 pt

I use it to downvoat other drivers that I disagree with.

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