Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed
cabbage@piefed.social 4 weeks agoPieFed shows us that he has an "attitude" of -40%, which I guess means that of 200 catloaf votes 160 will point downwards. So I guess at least it's nothing personal, he or she is just an active downvoter of things. I guess we all enjoy spending our time differently.
A cool potential feature would be weighted downvotes - giving downvotes form users with higher attitude scores (in PieFed terms) greater significance. But I'm derailing.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 weeks ago
I've always wanted to ask such a person what their deal is. I mean they could be miserable, or one of the people who always complain about everything. Or it's supposed to be some form of trolling that no one gets... Maybe I shouldn't ask because it's not gonna be a healthy discussion... And I don't care if that happens in an argument. But I really wonder why someone downvotes something like an innocent computer question. Or some comment with correct and uncontroversial advise. Or other people during a healty conversation. It doesn't happen often to me, but I had all of that happen. And maybe thoughts like this lead to the current situation. And some people think about exposing such people and some think it should be protected.
cabbage@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Then again, if there's a method to it and logic behind it, maybe these active downvoters are doing everybody a favour by screening content and downvoting things they consider to be of little value?
I don't know. It would be interesting to hear their motivation for sure.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
I can’t answer for other people but I’m probably in the “low attitude” group, since my older account is at -9% and the current one at +42%. And at least for me it’s the result of two factors.
One of them is that old Reddit habits die hard. In Reddit I used to have uBlock Origin hiding the voting buttons from the platform, as a way to avoid contributing with it altogether except in ways that subjectively benefitted me, such as commenting (as I’m verbose, I feel good writing). The exception to the above was typically things so stupid/reddit-like/idiotic that I couldn’t help but downvote.
Another is that my “core” values is rather different from what most people in social networks value. As such, a lot of posts/comments are from my PoV overrated (that get downvoted) or underrated (that get upvoted). And due to sorting algorithms I’m seeing high score comments more often, so this yields a higher amount of downvotes.