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If everything is upvoted then doesn’t that kind of defeat the point? Isn’t the point of voting to raise the good stuff to the top? So I don’t have to browse furry porn to see some news highlights or shitposts.
You mean you don’t have to browse news highlights or shitposts to see furry porn
You can not upvote stuff you don’t feel is particularly tailored for you
This man’s playing both sides so always ends up on top.
I’m selfish, I created a bunch of communities I want to see become successful enough that I can hand off to other people to moderate. That requires me trying to create an environment where people are comfortable posting.
Fine. Here’s my upvote. 😅
Thank you, but this was actually inspired by a post I saw where someone said something disagreeable to most, but I was just grateful they tried. Especially with how slow yesterday was.
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I upvote everyone who answers on one of my posts or comments, except for trolls.
Innit!
Get off your high fucking horse. Upvotes are for content you want to see, downvotes are for content you don’t. Can we stop pretending there’s some bullshit morality attached or that they’re for anything other than base popularity?
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Someone didn’t have their Weetabix
This isn’t right either, upvotes are for whatever I want and downvotes are for whatever I want. Ima fucking downvoted myself now after I post this comment
I’m downvoting you now because I agree with you
And I’m upvoting you because while I completely disagree with your comment, I’m in gratitude of your effort and we will always need new comments.
I’m upvoting you because I respect your opinion, but disagree, because commenting for the sake of commenting reduces the overall quality of a thread and downvote myself, because by posting this comment I am contributing to the issue.
based
I wish more people instantly downvoted worthless shit comments like “based”…
Maybe one day.
You literally just repeated my exact point, but left out “to see”
You want it, upvote it; you don’t, downvotes it. Are we actually just fighting for the sake of fighting? I thought this wasn’t Reddit.
The honeymoon phase for Lemmy is over. No one cares anymore about someone expressing themselves (I still do–this is based on my observations).
Not arguing, I’m just shit posting
What have you contributed?
I upvote signal and downvote noise. Novelty is good whether I agree with it or not, redundancy is bad.
Spot on. Though the website deals with that much more gracefully than the apps
We don’t need posts that are like, Facebook quality
the reason I upvote a post can differ. sometimes it’ll be because I agree with it, sometimes it’ll be because I want more people to see it and interact with it.
My favourite type of person.
If it’s garbage then I’ll downvote it and maybe block the user if they continue to post garbage in the future.
Yes it’s effort, but is it constructive?
Depends on how you value constructiveness
Yeah that constructiveness is purely subjective. Well it’s constructive based on my own personal point of view. And it might not align with other people.
And that’s exactly the purpose that voting serves!
Fair
Most of the instances have disabled downvoges
This one allows them!
Wow that’s so lame.
Some have sure, most I doubt. The largest instance certainly hasn’t.
I know one of them. It’s called youtube
Redditors want to make rules now, huh?
Put it like this, there’s a reason YouTube removed dislikes, because they need to keep seeing new channels. So even if the old popular channels die, they’ll have newer channels to replace them. That starts with making toxic disliking redundant. Don’t for a second think there’s no place for dislikes, but as a “I don’t like you” or “I disagree”, it’s counter productive.
Yes, some people do misuse down voting, but it’s absolutely worth it in my mind. It prevents bigotry from both being shown highly and also makes it clear that bigotry isn’t acceptable. How do you think someone feels when they see a bigoted comment and it’s in the positives. I’ll answer that question cause I’ve seen it all the time: it’s depressing as fuck. It still sucks to see bigoted comments at all, but at least when they’re downvoted to hell, it feels better. It feels nice to know that the bigotry isn’t accepted by others and that the bigot is in the minority.
Similar for general misinformation, scams, etc. It’d be nice if bad comments could just get removed before you see them, but that will never be perfect. Even well moderated communities still have delays before moderators see reports and most people won’t take the time to report either.
I frequently upvote amd comment here as a means of contribution because we need to make Lemmy bigger and pull in users.
This isn’t Reddit, there’s no account-wide tracking of special Internet points to worry about.
Well. The points are there in the backend, right? I guess you are saying we just shouldn’t worry about them.
I liked being able to look at someone’s comment history and karma score to determine if they were a troll. Also liked how many subreddits wouldn’t let you post until you had a bit of positive karma in the sub.
Yeah but if someone gets points, they’re more likely to post again.
Only if they are have no self esteem and need validation from strangers, upvotes are mostly fluff, downvotes when not abused are the better way of doing things
Someone says the earth is flat… downvote, someone says I wonder why they think like that let’s try and understand why they think like that doesn’t deserve a downvote, but with the current online echo chambers on both sides these are how downvotes are used
Nah, getting a dopamine hit is the standard human reaction to getting approval, and upvotes are basically distilled approval. You can pretend you are “tough” and don’t care about “validation from strangers” but normal people get a sense of satisfaction and a desire to repeat it when they post something online that is well received.
Hell, that emotional reaction is the entire motivating factor that keeps every social media site full of fresh content. People want to be liked.
Yeah you are right I’m not immune to our biological hardwiring it’s not a me being tough thing however, not everyone is equally affected by it.
I don’t have social media as I don’t see value in it, also if my comments get downvoted to shit or upvoted I don’t really care because these things aren’t real life to me
Even in real life if someone praises me for doing a good job it’s a nice thing to do for sure but I don’t actually care about getting praise especially from strangers, if it’s someone I know then sure
Sure, everyone is variable and your personal experience is valid. It isn’t very different from mine, tbh (also lemmy is social media so…)
I just took exception to the “(people are motivated by upvotes) …only if they have no self esteem and need validation from strangers” part. Many people are motivated by upvotes, but there isn’t anything necessarily wrong with that, and it certainly doesn’t mean they have low self esteem or anything. It just felt rude.
And why would you encourage that if you dont want t the stuff they post?
Yes, there is. You have 705 post score and 565 comment score.
I just want to encourage to post and keep posting.
It’s about scoring to help sorting through content that’s relevant, not a competition for points.
Yeah, that was my point.
I agree!
Has anyone made a Simpsons shitpost thing I can join? That’s pretty much all I miss from reddit. That and Slay by Comment
