I downvote anything that I deem worsens the quality of the community. This includes, but is not limited to:
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misinformation
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trolls
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bad faith engagement
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uncalled for hostility and incivility
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very lazy, low effort posts/comments
Perfect! I’d add mindless slogans as well.
“The cruelty is the point!”
Or any of 100 other endlessly repeated replies.
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Misinformation, bad attitudes, clichéd jokes
It’s a disagree button. That’s how it’s used in practice, and we’re better off just accepting that.
This is a really nice situation where you can confidently say anyone downvoting you is a hypocrite.
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I love it and hate it when I write a thoughtful and, at least to me, friendly and persuasive post but because it goes against usual Western narratives (hedonism good, fencesitting as a virtue, truth is flexible, etc) I get a flood of downvotes… but no comments nor arguments against it! Which makes sense: I’ve shaken their house-of-cards ideology and they’re having a gut reaction, but maybe later on they’ll explore what I said and start thinking in earnest about the topic. 🤷🙏
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The downvote button is the disagree button
I disagree. Down voted /s
“This is so ignorant replying would be a waste of time.”
For content that lowers the quality of the fediverse. Misinformation, reposts, bad faith actors, etc.
Bad faith arguments or inflammatory nonsense. We can disagree and I’ll upvote if you’re actually speaking in good faith.
Pretty much any form of, “Whataboutism” gets downvoted. No one was talking about C, why are you acting indignant about C when people were discussing A and B, you know?
I mostly downvote bad faith, hostile or just generally angry/mean comments independent of whether I agree with them or not. Basically I’m using it against the people that are polluting the air here.
Bad faith, low effort, hostility.
“I don’t like this” button.
Which is often something I disagree withI disagree, so I downvoted you. Guess that’s my answer.
I try to use it like the original Reddit vision, which was that up and downvotes are for comments that I think add to the conversation. I’ll upvote a comment that I disagree with if it’s well thought out and well articulated (then I’ll say why I disagree).
The exception is when it’s a thread looking for factual information. If someone asks for objective information, I’ll downvote wrong answers.
“Disagree”/“its bad”/“eww”
“This does not contribute” button.
On a related topic, one thing I learned from the old Century Club days on reddit is the Courtesy Upvote.
If a thread is interesting enough that you commented, upvote it, upvote all the other comments.
If someone replies to you or one of your posts, upvote them too.
Racism and homo/transphobia, which are often disguised as (mis)information. I don’t usually downvote people unless they’re being outright hateful though and then sometimes I block them too.
Also downvote & report spam, which is actually pretty rare on lemmy.
