• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If later text shows that my initial reading was incorrect due to missing context or because I misread their starting point, yeah. For example, if something starts off sounding positive but context shows it is actually a dogwhistle I had not come across before I will go back and correct my votes. It rarely takes even a minute to fix a dozen or so in a chain.

    It isn’t so much that I think my individual votes matter, but because I don’t like knowing I gave a positive interactions with that thing.

    Same thing if I read something as a negative and find out I was wrong, gonna flip those to upvotes!

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    Sometimes. I might get halfway through the comments and see that someone has shared something from their post history that paints them in a different light.

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    No because when I upvote someone it usually means I agree with their point. Disagreeing later doesn’t change the initial agreement.

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        If I agree with their point, again, I don’t care if I later find reasons or points to disagree on something different. It will not make me waste my time adjusting upvotes. Common ground is very important.