That's precisely how the debate between myself any my SO was finally ended. The seat stays down now unless in use.

It is also the best option as it reduces bacterial spreading whipe flushing.

I have convinced a few people in my life to close the lid by telling them. Stand completely naked by an open toilet then flush it and just feel all that water splash for that time. Repeat again with closed lid if need be. Most the water you don't see but can feel it land on you. Now just think about all the stuff it lands on and you touch in your bathroom like your toothbrush.

The one thing that really bothers me is when I see people walk up to a urinal and flush it and just stand there letting all the stuff get all over themselves from the last guy. Also on the same note people who fake washing their hands then particularly don't dry them. Like WTF all you are doing is making little pools of bacteria to have a spa day. Then you leave those little pools on every thing you touch. I rather you not fucking wash your hands at all. And yes people notice you acting like a 5 year old who doesn't want to wash his hands because mommy told him to. Your a 35 year old grown ass man Jerry. Wash your hands for real. WTF.

BTW I'm a guy if you haven't guessed and I thank you for reading about my thoughts as I fall asleep.

I don’t get the leaving the seat up as a male. When I flush I don’t want pee and poop particles sprayed all over the room. That’s why I use a toilet in the first place

Yeah, I don't want splash water getting anywhere else than the bowl. Also, what if I accidentally fumble something and drop it in the water. Even if there weren't a lid, I'd put the seat down in case of a level 10 emergency

I dunno why people care what position the seat & lid are in. It takes like 1 second to put it into the required configuration.

This is not a gender thing.

I e been doing it since I was 8. "Courtesy,"Google it.

I always close the lid when I’m not using my toilet. So do my wife and kid. It’s weird that people leave theirs open.

If you take the toilet seat up or down debate seriously I can only assume you're a tulpa conjured from the brain of a hack boomer comedian

Assuming 50% of people in the world have a penis (it’s lower but for the sake of argument we’ll say 50%), more than 50% of bathroom visits require sitting. People with vulvas need to sit, but so does anyone who is pooping, as well as anyone who has one of a number of conditions that makes standing during a bathroom visit untenable. Therefore, the seat should always be put down.

I did this since childhood out of spite. Child me was frustrated that I always had to put it down for my sister and she never had to move the toilet seat anywhere. It made no sense. So instead of putting just the seat down I put the whole thing, lid and all, down so that she had to move the toilet lid every time she used it too.

This spite play became a habit that I now do always everywhere

It could also be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid up. This will be an eternal debate.

Who doesn’t do this?

Leaving it as-is after use is the most efficient (least number of seat movements)

For 15 years I lived in an apartment with the bathroom shelves directly above the toilet. It's a corollary of Murphy's Law that anything dropped in the bathroom somehow will land in the toilet bowl. Hence, the lid stays closed.

At home I leave it down, of I'm at a dive bar or something I leave the seat up so the next guy won't piss all over the seat. That benefits everyone.

I'm a man living alone, with a cat. The seat has been down for 10 years.

Definitely put the lid down before flushing. No need so splash the sharticles all over the toilet

Have the ceramic only, no seats, and the problem's solved!