I think that if you aren't beating reddit on the empathy metric then you're not doing at all well. I was struck forcefully by the opinion of the OC poster on the downvotes debate who said:

When I started posting here our content was heavily downvoted, even in communities appropriate for it. This was very discouraging. It made us feel bad about doing something we should be doing for fun.

And then you've got various other people talking about things like the lack of downvotes devaluing upvotes, which to my mind is just childish nonsense in the same vein as the existence of trans people devaluing masculinity and femininity.

The sheer glaring entitlement of people that are not sharing anything wanting the right to make people feel a bit shit about themselves...