Which posts and comments do you either up- or downvote? Which are you not voting on?
Upvote:
- insightful post or comment I agree with
- clever jokes or references
- being open-minded
- giving helpful advice
- any post or comment that made me laugh or simile, whether or not it is “good”
- good gut feeling about someones intention
No-vote:
- insightful post or comment I disagree with
- overused jokes
- useful bots
- someone angry venting their frustration(s)
- comments that already exist multiple times in a thread
Downvote:
- deliberately looking for a “fight” or rage baiting
- complete disregard to reality
- false and/or potentially dangerous information
- spamming bots and/or trolls
- inciting violence, no matter against whom (people seem to forget this is a straight up crime, sometimes a felony)
- propaganda and political or religious extremism
- know all, better than everyone attitude
- highly questionable anime content (especially sexualizing characters that look like children)
- obvious, malicious manipulation
- AI generated content ( mentioned first by [email protected] )
I am really interested in your vote behavior and may also update my list as more things come to mind. These will be listed under a horizontal line.
Upvote stuff I like such as positive news, shitposts, windows bad and Linux good posts.
Downvote rarely, only if the post is factually wrong or misleading and I’ve spent the time to confirm. “Person shreds other person” is a shit headline and unless he hit a 10 point debate combo with a knockout I’d Downvote.
It all depends on the person:
Posts or comments from women: downvote about every second one, randomly.
Posts or comments from black people: downvote every single one, thoroughly, with extra pressure on the button.
Posts or comments from stupid people: sometimes downvote, sometimes upvote, according to my mood swings. Sometimes create an additional lemmy account in order to have a second downvote.
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I see the point you are making, or I am interpreting too much into it, but I don’t think discussion about subjective, highly variable day-to-day things is useless. Sure, every human is influenced by a lot of factors, but in my opinion there is still something to learn from this. I know I did in less than an hour already.
I see the point you are making,
Just when I tried so hard not to make one…
Vibe. That’s it. I just vibe vote.
Word. If I would have smiled at you when you said it in person, it’s got my upvote.
If I’m just talking with someone and there’s no vibe, it’s a neutral.
I try not to talk to people who deserve my downvotes. I do fail sometimes.
I tend to upvote any display of anyone’s creative pursuit if I happen to scroll by it. Even if it’s not something I’m into. The marker-on-photo-paper guy whose name escapes me, people’s photographs in any of the photography related communities, any of the ink doodles, hand made stuff, or comics posted by their original creators.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.
I have a up-vote down-vote pattern for when the scores are low. If I disagree with a child comment, I will down-vote the comment and up-vote the parent comment.
Since every comment automatically gets one up-vote, a parent score of 2, and a child score of 0 shows that the parent comment didn’t down-vote the reply comment and they should look elsewhere for who to be mad at.
Going for net-impact, interesting.
Upvote: well written, adds something to the discussion
Downvote: low effort, hurtful or rage bait
I make a point of not using downvotes as an “I disagree” button. If an opinion is presented well, it may still add something to the discussion even if it doesn’t match my personal preferences.
I don’t know. I just wing it.
I can’t down vote or see them in my instance which is really nice imo. But usually if I like it, I upvote it. Relatable, funny interesting.
To me upvote/downvote means approval/disapproval. Not necesarily agree/disagree, so I’ve upvoted different posts and comments with different points of view if they are argumented well for and polite.
I do not vote when I skimm the post/comment.
That is basically it.
I upvote things that I think are interesting, things that make me laugh, and questions where people are seeking feedback. I almost never downvote unless something is hideously stupid / bad info or bad take.
I downvote if it looks like they are posting in bad faith. I’ll upvote some comments that I disagree with if the poster was trying to contribute to the conversation – I usually do that to offset the fact that they’ve been downvoted a bunch already.
Many of the communities I’m in are fairly small, so I upvote almost every comment that I read. I figure it lets someone know that someone else read what they wrote, and I think that’s what a lot of us are here for.
inciting violence, no matter against whom (people seem to forget this is a straight up crime, sometimes a felony)
Just gonna repeat what I said about this in another thread about this:
It is illegal only if it is reasonably going to trigger or calls for any immediate lawlessness. Like straight up trying to get a bunch of people together to knock-over a convenience store or actually organizing a murder.
Saying “man, I wish this evil son of a bitch took a round in the face” is not such a time.
I was banned from Reddit for inciting violence by saying “I’m surprised Kanye hasn’t murder/suicided Kim or Taylor yet” like how tf is that inciting violence? Kanye himself is going for read that?? Is Kanye the one who reported me?
Up: I like it or agree
Down: I dislike it or disagree.Up: comment adds to conversation or makes me laugh
Down: comment talks about upvotes/downvotes, is hateful, is blatant misinformation, is just a gif, is completely unrelated to the conversation, is a clickbait video with a clickbait thumbnail
No vote: everything else.
Upvote - i like it :)
No vote - i don’t like it or don’t care
My instance doesn’t have downvotes
