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  • DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Get off your high fucking horse. Upvotes are for content you want to see, downvotes are due content you don’t. Can we stop pretending there’s some bullshit morality attached or that they’re for anything other than base popularity?

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    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Someone didn’t have their Weetabix

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  • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it’s garbage then I’ll downvote it and maybe block the user if they continue to post garbage in the future.

    Yes it’s effort, but is it constructive?

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    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends on how you value constructiveness

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      • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah that constructiveness is purely subjective. Well it’s constructive based on my own personal point of view. And it might not align with other people.

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    • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most of the instances have disabled downvoges

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      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wow that’s so lame.

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      • explodicle@local106.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Testing if this one does, please down vote

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      • hypelightfly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Some maybe, most I doubt. The largest instance certainly hasn’t.

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      • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I know one of them. It’s called youtube

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Up vote = I agree

    Down vote = I disagree

    Reported = I super disagree

    And anyone who says that they don’t do this is a bloody liar.

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    • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll say it and I’m not a liar.

      Upvote= needs to be seen more. (I could disagree strongly but feel others should see it. )

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    • Ronath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll downvote propagation of memes I don’t like.

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    • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For me is

      I agree: upvote

      I disagree: nothing or maybe response

      I think they rare stupid or a troll: downvote and block.

      I’m fed up with something and it keeps popping up: mass downvotes.

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    • limerod@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Removed = I did not like it :(

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure the intent when upvotes and downvotes were created was to use them in regards to relevance. Is the topic about ducks and someone is going off about jeeps? Downvote. Is the community about posting DIY peanut butter but someone keeps posting Skippy™? Downvote.

    It shouldn’t have anything to do with agreeing, effort, or anything like that. Just a way to keep the topic/community on track.

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    • Cinnamon3431@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      disagree. downvote.

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    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wholeheartedly agree with that. Also earlier when the dude was posting racist memes and everyone downvoted, I liked that usage.

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      • Blank@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is due to the fact that racist memes are never relevant, automatic downvote!

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    • sgtlighttree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t that what was specified in the original reddiquette? Downvote to maintain quality, but not to disagree?

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      • Stoneykins@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is silly though, isn’t it? Most people think most things that they disagree with are low quality by nature of being something they disagree with.

        Whatever was intended for them, IMO upvotes and downvotes work because everyone just uses them however they want, and the sum total of everyone doing that averages out to a somewhat passable quality sorting system. Trying to tell people how to use their upvotes and downvotes is just yelling into the wind.

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      • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, that’s more than likely where I first learned about it.

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    • hypelightfly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Intent is irrelevant. Humans don’t work that way and will continue to downvote what they don’t like/agree with and upvote what they do like/agree with. Creating a system that ignores how people work and asking them to please use it how you want will never work.

      Everyone should just embrace how it’s actually used and move on.

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    • explodicle@local106.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use it as a “you should read this” button. Even if it’s offtopic, I’ll upvote if it’s funny or useful.

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      • tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I like this explanation the best. Net vote count is a decent proxy for whether something is worth reading.

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  • bappity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the reason I upvote a post can differ. sometimes it’ll be because I agree with it, sometimes it’ll be because I want more people to see it and interact with it.

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    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My favourite type of person.

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  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I upvote signal and downvote noise. Novelty is good whether I agree with it or not, redundancy is bad.

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    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Spot on. Though the website deals with that much more gracefully than the apps

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  • raptir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This isn’t Reddit, there’s no account-wide tracking of special Internet points to worry about.

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    • ryo@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s about scoring to help sorting through content that’s relevant, not a competition for points.

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      • raptir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, that was my point.

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    • WoodenDing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but if someone gets points, they’re more likely to post again.

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      • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And why would you encourage that if you dont want t the stuff they post?

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      • mikeboltonshair@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Only if they are have no self esteem and need validation from strangers, upvotes are mostly fluff, downvotes when not abused are the better way of doing things

        Someone says the earth is flat… downvote, someone says I wonder why they think like that let’s try and understand why they think like that doesn’t deserve a downvote, but with the current online echo chambers on both sides these are how downvotes are used

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    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just want to encourage to post and keep posting.

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    • hypelightfly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, there is. You have 705 post score and 565 comment score.

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    • tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well. The points are there in the backend, right? I guess you are saying we just shouldn’t worry about them.

      I liked being able to look at someone’s comment history and karma score to determine if they were a troll. Also liked how many subreddits wouldn’t let you post until you had a bit of positive karma in the sub.

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  • Twink@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I upvote is I agree, I downvote if I disagree. I ignore if I don’t care. Shrimple as.

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  • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Upvote = I laughed. That’s what I came for. To many occasions nowadays where a post’s main purpose is something other than making me laugh

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  • Stinkywinks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If everything is upvoted then doesn’t that kind of defeat the point? Isn’t the point of voting to raise the good stuff to the top? So I don’t have to browse furry porn to see some news highlights or shitposts.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sometimes I see memes I don’t agree with, but I’ll still upvote if they’re funny. If you can’t laugh at yourself every now and then, you’re probably not a secure person

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  • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We don’t need posts that are like, Facebook quality

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  • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why should we care what motivates people to upvote or downvote?

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  • Like_Pravana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I only upvote comments if the person posted something I was going to post myself. Saves me time. If I think the post itself is cool I upvote the post.

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  • mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Has anyone made a Simpsons shitpost thing I can join? That’s pretty much all I miss from reddit. That and Slay by Comment

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    • LolaCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      !simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works

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  • mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I frequently upvote amd comment here as a means of contribution because we need to make Lemmy bigger and pull in users.

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  • superkret@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I upvote everyone who answers on one of my posts or comments, except for trolls.

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    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Innit!

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  • _bac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree!

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  • CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fine. Here’s my upvote. 😅

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    • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you, but this was actually inspired by a post I saw where someone said something disagreeable to most, but I was just grateful they tried. Especially with how slow yesterday was.

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  • seiryth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Actually never thought of it this way before, but that may have also been the point the way reddit works changed

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