Yeah. In my experience upvotes/downvotes often have very little to do with the actual quality of a comment and more to do with how much it conforms with the current political zeitgeist of whatever community you’re participating in. The converse of this is that low quality comments telling people who disagree to go F themselves may also get upvotes.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Yeah, the “platonic ideal downvote” is only supposed to be used for content that “doesn’t contribute to the conversation” or whatever, but that is very often just not the case. There’s even research on how downvotes easily lead to a bandwagon effect: here’s a blog post on this, based on a research article.
Hmm, I should probably create a Beehaw account and move over there. It’s a shame that account migration really isn’t a thing on Lemmy
ageedizzle@piefed.ca 1 week ago
Interesting I didn’t realize there was research on this stuff. Yeah maybe I should go to beehaw too. Lemmy.blahaj.zone is another one that disables downvotes. It’s true theres no full account migration but theres ways to export your settings and subscription etc to a new community (see: https://lemmy.world/post/1060796)