Get off your high fucking horse. Upvotes are for content you want to see, downvotes are for content you don't. Can we stop pretending there's some bullshit morality attached or that they're for anything other than base popularity?
This isn't right either, upvotes are for whatever I want and downvotes are for whatever I want. Ima fucking downvoted myself now after I post this comment
I'm downvoting you now because I agree with you
And I'm upvoting you because while I completely disagree with your comment, I'm in gratitude of your effort and we will always need new comments.
You literally just repeated my exact point, but left out "to see"
You want it, upvote it; you don't, downvotes it. Are we actually just fighting for the sake of fighting? I thought this wasn't Reddit.
Not arguing, I'm just shit posting
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?
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.
I don't report things I disagree with, but I type long responses and usually delete before sending so ha! That will show them.
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. )
I'll downvote propagation of memes I don't like.
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.
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.
disagree. downvote.
I wholeheartedly agree with that. Also earlier when the dude was posting racist memes and everyone downvoted, I liked that usage.
This is due to the fact that racist memes are never relevant, automatic downvote!
Isn't that what was specified in the original reddiquette? Downvote to maintain quality, but not to disagree?
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.
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.
I use it as a "you should read this" button. Even if it's offtopic, I'll upvote if it's funny or useful.
I like this explanation the best. Net vote count is a decent proxy for whether something is worth reading.
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.
My favourite type of person.
Harmful ideas should be downvoted and repressed even if they took effort to type out, actually
There's always an edge case or two, it doesn't undermine the overarching idea though
This isn't Reddit, there's no account-wide tracking of special Internet points to worry about.
It's about scoring to help sorting through content that's relevant, not a competition for points.
Yeah, that was my point.
Yeah but if someone gets points, they're more likely to post again.
And why would you encourage that if you dont want t the stuff they post?
I upvote signal and downvote noise. Novelty is good whether I agree with it or not, redundancy is bad.
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. Y'all need to entertain me better.
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.
You mean you don't have to browse news highlights or shitposts to see furry porn
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
We don't need posts that are like, Facebook quality
Why should we care what motivates people to upvote or downvote?
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.
I frequently upvote amd comment here as a means of contribution because we need to make Lemmy bigger and pull in users.
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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