thethunderwolfMar 14

What are your Lemmy upvoting/downvoting habits? How do you judge posts/comments?

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65352983

What are your Lemmy upvoting/downvoting habits? How do you judge posts/comments? - Divisions by zero

I was wondering how users tend to judge what to upvote, what do downvote, and what not to vote on. I made this comment [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/24953307] which got me wondering what others think and do Personally I upvote almost everything. I see upvote as “this is a good Lemmy post/comment” and downvote as “this is a bad Lemmy post/comment”. Most of what I see is good. Bad things are things such as misinformation, bad faith stuff / trolling, people being mean/annoying, bad (in my opinion) takes, people being wrong/stupid about stuff, irrelevant things, etc. When I do not vote it’s for one of 3 reasons: either I don’t understand what it is saying, it makes a reference I don’t get, or I can’t determine whether it’s good or bad (usually because it’s unclear).

Show threadDemdaru

I upvote things that required effort, present seemingly honest thoughts are are not dismissive against anyone. This includes jokes, L takes, W takes, anything.

I don’t downvote much. Mostly when people engage in demagogy or don’t read post/comment they respond to, as I hate with a passion both weaponised ignorance and twisting words.

If I don’t agree with a post or comment, IMO there is already function for that and it’s called reply. Maybe I am the one in the wrong after all, downvoting and moving on won’t let me check.

Also hi. You decided to do this after responding to me. Have an upvote for effort shown ;p

Mar 14 at 6:30pmWeb