Do you rarely vote on anything at all?
Do you upvote when something is interesting but rarely downvote? Do you downvote when something isn’t interesting but rarely upvote?
Do you vote to signal agreement or disagreement?
Do you vote to encourage insightful replies regardless whether you agree or not?
I rarely interact with the voting system on sites, aside from the occasional missclick, that is. While I think it can be useful when searching for answers or tutorials, especially on topics you’re not familiar with and can’t judge competence vs BS, I think in more social spaces it leads to both echo chambers and karma farming, and it feeds social media addiction by giving you little validations for every upvote you receive.
I also think it prevents people from having more meaningful interactions. Rather than replying with 'This was insightful", “I disagree because…” or “that was really funny” You just make a number go up or down.
If I feel that some post will have a negative effect on the community it’s in, I down vote. I up vote things I feel are exceptionally good.
My threshold for what counts as negative or exceptionally good, varies with my mood at that particular moment.
I actually don’t understand how it’s supposed to work but recently, if I see a post about something I want to stay top/hot, I upvote.
Also, when somebody has a funny/interesting comment, I will upvote.
I upvote things I like. I downvote things by accident, because my back gesture is similar to Lemmy’s downvote gesture.
I obviously also downvote people who are being annoying.
I upvote when I really like the post, it’s not something that I do often. I don’t dislike, rather, if I see that a user is posting a lot of things that really I don’t like I do block the user.
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top level posts, i usually upvote anything i commented on or just liked for any reason. i almost never downvote them
for comments, more or less the same except i will happily downvote stupid or belligerent comments, i don’t buy this ‘does it add to the discussion’ thing, if that was true it would apply to upvotes as well. piefed has an ‘attitude score’ so when i downvote a comment, i will upvote surrounding comments at random to keep my good boy points at an acceptable level
the other attitude score related thing is upvoting almost anything that has been highly downvoted regardless of its quality just because it seems funny to raise my score by upvoting stuff that everyone else hates
good boy points
Made me laugh. Have some tendies.
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Upvote: Things I like or find interesting, other people’s OC and effortful posts (even if it’s not my thing), genuine stuff that makes the community thrive
Downvote: People who are super rude, antisocial content/communication, reportable stuff, misinformation.
I have a couple of users blocked.
I upvote things I find interesting. I upvote posts that I comment on. I don’t downvote.
Same here … if I’ve read or looked at something, I’ll just upvote, just to encourage people to post or comment again.
Even if someone says I’m wrong on something or disagrees, I’ll still upvote. I’ve been corrected lots of times in the past (on many other platforms) so I don’t mind being told I’m wrong if I objectively look at my content and see how I was wrong.
The only time I’ll downvote is if I come across blatant hateful, ugly, racist, homophobic, misogynistic crap.
I upvote cats/dogs/owls/other cute animals, memes i find funny, things i find impressive, people being nice, things i find interesting/informative
I cant downvote thanks to my instance
I try to not downvote subjective opinions and download objectively wrong posts and comments
I upvote things that are on topic with the sub and contribute to the discussion, and downvote things that are offtopic and derail the discussion. I’m weird like that.
I always make it a point to upvote content on smaller communities I subscribe to; I like to think it helps whoever posted the content to know that despite the very low engagement, people are in fact seeing it and appreciating it.
I upvote intelligence, and downvote ignorance.
I usually upvote for engagement and downvote for being a shithead.
upvote things I enjoy or agree with.
I downvote things hate or disagree with.
one exception though. if what they said is correct or justified, even though I disagree or hate it, I’ll do neither.
for example, if a comment said “all men are pigs”, I wouldn’t do anything. technically wrong but also not wrong.
if a comment said, “all men are pigs and deserve to die.” it would get a downvote, unjustified violence against a group is unreasonable and illogical.
if the comment said, “my husband is a pig. he squeals every time I peg his ass.” that would get an upvote, because it’s hilarious.
Up for things I like, appreciate the effort, appreciate the reply.
Down only for things like spam, posts in the wrong sub, reply is in bad faith or being a total dipshit. Disagreement alone does not warrant a downvote.
