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

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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).

I updoot basically everyone I interact with, or anyone I think has shared good insights, funny jokes or some other thing in that order. Or when relevant to a community like the unpopular opinion community where you upvote what you consider unpopular and downvote what you consider popular

I downvote when I think someone has a bad take, or is being hostile or spamming

And I don’t interact when im either feeling neutral on it, a good take is proposed in an asshole way, or someone whose comment is disagreeable enough for me not even consider engaging

a good take is proposed in an asshole way,

This one is up there for me. Lack of tact. The worst is seeing a public spat where one party wasn’t totally closed off to having their view changed but then some clown takes a shit in the comment box and ruins that potential.