Which posts and comments do you either up- or downvote? Which are you not voting on?
Upvote:
- insightful post or comment I agree with
- clever jokes or references
- being open-minded
- giving helpful advice
- any post or comment that made me laugh or simile, whether or not it is “good”
- good gut feeling about someones intention
No-vote:
- insightful post or comment I disagree with
- overused jokes
- useful bots
- someone angry venting their frustration(s)
- comments that already exist multiple times in a thread
Downvote:
- deliberately looking for a “fight” or rage baiting
- complete disregard to reality
- false and/or potentially dangerous information
- spamming bots and/or trolls
- inciting violence, no matter against whom (people seem to forget this is a straight up crime, sometimes a felony)
- propaganda and political or religious extremism
- know all, better than everyone attitude
- highly questionable anime content (especially sexualizing characters that look like children)
- obvious, malicious manipulation
- AI generated content ( mentioned first by cloudless@piefed.social )
I am really interested in your vote behavior and may also update my list as more things come to mind. These will be listed under a horizontal line.
Vibe. That’s it. I just vibe vote.
Word. If I would have smiled at you when you said it in person, it’s got my upvote.
If I’m just talking with someone and there’s no vibe, it’s a neutral.
I try not to talk to people who deserve my downvotes. I do fail sometimes.
Upvote - i like it :)
No vote - i don’t like it or don’t care
My instance doesn’t have downvotes
To me upvote/downvote means approval/disapproval, not necesarily agree/disagree. So I’ve upvoted different posts and comments with different points of view if they are argumented well for and polite.
I do not vote when I skimm the post/comment.
That is basically it.
Downvotes : genocide and occupation apologist Upvotes : posts or comment i find interesting No votes : Things i disagree with but it’s opinion based
Upvote: any insightful contribution even if I don’t agree with it.
Downvote: Remove this. Don’t show it to others. Was not worth my time to read this content because it contains false information, trolling, etc.
I’d like to encourage others not to use down votes for simple disagreement. Lemmy needs participation from thinking people.
So approve/disapprove then?
It’s always going to be a subjective process. The difference is I try to base it on effort and value for time. I’m not a computer but I can influence what I value. I can appreciate a good argument or an opinion I don’t like. I’m not perfect, but I think I can strive for that.
If that feels like the same thing as approval, then I perhaps a moment of self-reflection on whether things can have value that one dislikes is in order. I hope Lemmy won’t become more of an echo chamber than it already is.
I tend to upvote any display of anyone’s creative pursuit if I happen to scroll by it. Even if it’s not something I’m into. The marker-on-photo-paper guy whose name escapes me, people’s photographs in any of the photography related communities, any of the ink doodles, hand made stuff, or comics posted by their original creators.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.
I universally downvote things that objectify women
I don’t know. I just wing it.
Upvote:
- Something I like
- Something I agree with
- Something funny
- A great point for an opposing view
Neutral:
- Something I don’t care about
- Something I agree with, but is incoherent/ confusing
- Things I disagree with, but is politely presented and has decent arguments
Downvote:
- Something I think is trolling/Bigotry
- Agendaposting
- Something I agree with, but has terrible argument or presented in an offensive way
- Something I disagree with, and is incoherent/confusing/presented in an offensive way
- If the post/comment is so confusing I don’t even know which side they are arguing for
- Wildly Offtopic for the thread/comunity
Paladin voting, righteous! 😁
I don’t downvote (At least not intentionally, but if I fall asleep while holding my there can be some accidental taps). Even if something seems somewhat offensive to me.
On the other hand, I don’t upvote as much as I think I should.
When a meme is funny enough to send to my wife, upvote.
When I see that one dude post his daily game screenshot, downvote.
I am simple man.
I have a up-vote down-vote pattern for when the scores are low. If I disagree with a child comment, I will down-vote the comment and up-vote the parent comment.
Since every comment automatically gets one up-vote, a parent score of 2, and a child score of 0 shows that the parent comment didn’t down-vote the reply comment and they should look elsewhere for who to be mad at.
Going for net-impact, interesting.
Up: comment adds to conversation or makes me laugh
Down: comment talks about upvotes/downvotes, is hateful, is blatant misinformation, is just a gif, is completely unrelated to the conversation, is a clickbait video with a clickbait thumbnail
No vote: everything else.
upvote: comment is interesting or funny
downvote: user is being rude (try not to downvote people I disagree with)
