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Way back in the Reddit days I used to upvote everything I interacted with and liked or thought was contributing to the conversation.

After the API drama I deleted my account, but I still browsed Reddit anonymously for a while before joining Lemmy. Obviously that meant I couldn't upvote anything. Unfortunately, I think those habits kinda transferred to my Lemmy account and these days I barely upvote anything and downvote a lot of things I disagree with.

I need to put in the effort to relearn both upvoting things in general and upvoting things I disagree with that are contributing to the conversation. It's just really annoying to have to do that for every post and comment

I use upvotes as a 'read' button. Sometimes when I enjoyed a post, I up it it as well. Rarely do I downvote unless I noticed the post/comment was already negative.

I will always downvote mods obsessed with power. The mod of !pics@lemmy.world is such a mod. There is even a post about that on !support@lemmy.world. But it seems like it was not very well taken. Well, I saw it and I fucking hate that dude. We had the option of doing something better here, but power still got to mods head. Fuck him

If i comment on a post or reply to a comment, I upvote it. Case in point.

If i think a post is in the wrong place, I downvote it. For example, I follow a lot of art communities. In artshare I upvote literally every post because I think creativity should be encouraged, and sharing your creative journey should be encouraged. However, I feel like the traditionalart community is for sharing professional art pieces. I've already seen your same piece in 4 other communities,et me have one place for polished art.

I upvote when the argument is good or I want to give a little more visibility for the argument expressed in the comment. And if it's a joke, to show that I enjoyed the joke.

I downvote if an argument is in bad faith or not thought of thoroughly at all.

The other day I upvoted a post I agreed with. A reply disagreed with it and made a thoughtful argument against the post I agreed with. I upvoted that too. Thoughtful discussion and insight is always something I appreciate.

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

I upvote comments I like that contribute to the conversation; downvote dumb jokes and people just trying to get easy upvotes. And also comments I don't like/disagree with, though I try avoiding that if I can help it cause it's bad etiquette (especially if it contributes to the discussion).

If it seeds division, doesn't provide a path to discussion, is overtly toxic, is in bad faith, or is flame bait. It gets the downvote.

It depends on where I am: If it's a funny post in a shitpost com/mag, then I upvote. If it's a well reasoned argument made in good faith in a discussion, I upvote (even if I don't necessarily agree with it). If they're saying something factually incorrect, I downvote. If they're posting shit that's not germane to the subject, I downvote. Clearly arguing in bad faith? Downvote.

I rarely ever downvote unless it's racist/sexist/bigoted nonsense or complete bullshit/misinformation. I don't downvote people I merely disagree with.

I upvote clever jokes, insightful comments, and anything I think isn't pointless. I upvote a lot, haha.

I tend to upvote submissions that promote the community, comments that do good jobs explaining things, and comments that have productive controbution. I don't downvote people that disagree with me. Those are reserved for people being assholes. My vote/view ratio is pretty low

Anything entertaining, or that gives a perspective on their opinion. Anything not outright atrocious or wrong. I have a light finger for likes.

I upvote posts I enjoy reading or hearing about. I upvote comments that are intelligent and/or well said. I rarely downvote.

I upvote if I think other people in the community would want to see the content, and downvote if I think they wouldn’t.

I mostly just upvote or pass. If someone is adding to the conversation and keeping the Fediverse alive, upvote. Like throwing a thumbs up.

I upvote things I like sometimes when I remember. I downvote things that don't at all belong in the community they are in, get important facts disastrously wrong and then double down, and hateful content.

the instance i use does not have downvotes. i personally like this, as if someone disagrees with something, they must express that via their own words, which i find to be a lot more productive and useful!

my basis is, if the comment contributes meaningfully/helpfully to the subject at hand—whether that is via explanation, personal storytelling of something relevant, something funny or kind that makes other people smile/feel joy, among many others—then i elect to give an upvote.

if it is unintelligible to me (like a reference i don't get), overly provocative, actively harmful (anti-vaccination stuff etc.) or otherwise not made in a real effort to contribute anything useful or interesting, then i elect not to give an upvote.

that is just my reasoning though :)

I generaly will upvote replies or posts were the commenter is making a sensible point in an argument, (even if it politically may NOT be something I agree with) as I do come to sites like lemmy with the "old school" usenet conversation philosophy.

If I can be a foil that another person can have ideas bounced off (esp. if they are really good ideas) I will jump in, upvote and comment.

I will upvote when someone is showing their artwork and I see a sincere effort and openness to share - that is always nice, even if the person is starting out and the work isn't very polished. Be it cooking, photography, music, art, carpentry.. whatever.. people have to start somewhere and I will never tear into someoone's effort in a destructive way.

I also upvote when someone like on the music comms brings a new artist whose style is something I have not heard before (and at my age, that is a rarity) and is well crafted and complex.. Love that esp. so.

When I joined lemmy after not having a account on any social media for years, I kept overthinking how and what to upvote that I just decided not to vote on anything.

Among other things I downvote self-censorship. Not only the relatively new TikTok-brainrot stuff, but I also tend to downvote the classic American brainrot like 'heck' or 'gosh'.

It’s fine if you want to swear. It’s fine if you don’t want to swear, too. But in this case don't make me think of the word you won’t dare to say.

I upvote a lot of comments. I try not to downvote many - I try to only downvote shitty comments, which are not ones with which I disagree, but shitty arguments or other bad actors. I also try not to upvote comments with which I agree that are shitty.

But I admit I'm nowhere near 100% on this.

But overall, I like upvoting lots of comments. If I read it and like it, I typically upvote. If I disgree but thought it was well-written or decently-written, I tend to upvote.

It pisses me off when I write a well-thought-out comment that has information that I wish people in the thread would read but it goes against preconceived notions so it attracts downvotes. It sucks. But that's just how things are.

That I have RSD doesn't help, though. I struggle not to take replies personally, but it's difficult when that's the only way I can seem to read something. But this begins to stray from the question at hand.

It depends, on the community, on my mood, on the type of comment or post, on where I found it, and more.

As long as it's not bad faith or outright egregiously dangerous or hate, even stuff I vehemently disagree with gets an upvote.

If I can look at a comment and perceive it as helpful, funny or overall a positive addition to the discussion at hand, then I will like/upvote it.

Being said the inverse is not true. If a comment is negative or takes away from the conversation at hand, I will likely ignore it or leave a comment in response to the comment/post

I very rarely will downvote a comment or post, due to a combination of the fact that I have the system disabled completely on my end, so I don't even have a button or the ability to see it. and I find down-voting with how it's implemented on Lemmy counter-productive to a healthy ecosystem. I had the same issue with Reddit when I was on that platform as well.

I used to rarely if ever up or down vote. Basically it has to be extrememly bad or extrememly good. I use the don't show me things in my feed I have viewed or interacted with so I upvote everything so that it does not show up when I refresh. one reason I don't like public up and down voting is because no one uses the same standard so its all a jumble of jumbles.

I have a very similar attitude as yourself. I want to emphasize as well the main content I don't upvote is content I don't understand, like posts about animes I don't watch etc. So I have very few down votes tbh.

I sort of ignore the bad ones and upvote the ones that contribute 'something' (a rather low bar but whatever).

I upvote what I like and downvote what I don’t.

Upvote things I felt like were worth reading. Down vote things I didn't think were worth reading.

I downvote the bot that posts nothing but links to reddit. I could block it and move on but somebody has to tell it that it sucks. Sometimes I'll go to the profile and downvote every post until I get bored or catch up. This is a way to quickly tag the bot post for when it shows up in Top Hour feed (often). None of the posts lead to any sort of discussion here. It's a neverending stream of shit in communities it moderates so reporting is a waste of fuckin time.

This is Lemmy and not reddit. I am here for Lemmy not reddit content. I am certain there are a lot of reddit refugees here. People who left and don't want to look back. If I wanted to read clankers replying to clankers in threads I cant participate in provided to you by clankers I would have stayed on reddit and tried to not get permanently banned.

The worst part is that sometimes the posts have a compelling topic. I'll read the post title (and not the user who posted it) and be excited about the discussion it could bring about. The disappointment in seeing it being a link to reddit by that bot after reading the title is almost palpable.

Upvotes are a different story. Since it means less here than it does on reddit I try to do it more often for human posts. There is less incentive to farm karma here so I am more willing to do my part in boosting good contributions made in good faith.