Saw this a lot on Reddit. Its not specific to here, just trying to gauge how people think. I’d see people posting about how “X said this! Have you seen what else they said in their site history?” And a stream of votebombing would happen.
I also wonder if this behaviour went the other way. Bias was confirmed, so profiles get a little boost? There are sites that hide posts and comments after a certain number of downvotes, but these always seemed to get the engagement even after.
Post history can be a useful tool to help determine if someone’s asking questions in bad faith
Or if you aren’t sure if someone is being sarcastic and forgot the /s.
I’ve also used it to try to find out what country someone was in when relevant to the discuss (ie, they’re talking about relevant laws in whatever jurisdiction they’re in)
Haha, many a time I’ve rescinded an up or down vote when I realised the comment was or wasn’t being satirical
This right here. I won’t go downvote/upvote their other comments, but I will get a vibe for the person themselves. Usually when I think someone is arguing in bad faith, I’ll check their comments to see if they’re just a troll or simply someone I’m disagreeing with. If they appear to conduct themselves in good faith in general, then instead of dismissing them as a troll, I’ll actually engage and try to learn more from their perspective. If it’s just a troll though, it’s pointless, so I’ll downvote the original comment and move on.
True, but doesnt really establish how others react around them.
Not to downvote them, that’s petty, but if they say something nuts, I do sometimes look at their history to see what other nuts things they’ve said.
I think we’ve all done that.
Knowing that up and downvotes are public (if not on the user profile through the API, so any crawler/3rd party app has access afaik) I avoid voting at all. I think it’s bad design and really hinders my engagement with posts.
I’m hoping that doesn’t happen here. That was a huge problem on reddit. Can we just not bring all the bad things about reddit here? Like Whose Line is it Anyway, the points are made up and nothing matters. Just enjoy this.
Argue the point not the person. I’m glad that the votes don’t really matter here, it means no one’s voice gets silenced like on reddit or tildes.
Only if they seem suspicious to me as trying to push some kind of idea. Usually posts with leading questions such as “anyone else notice the anecdotal negative experience portrayed as norm”, comments where someone blames a demographic for something, posts that are on topic but have a blatant other purpose meant to start shit (such as cat pics in c/cats held by soldiers), etc.
In too many cases, the user is really adamant about whatever they have to say, and I just end up blocking them.
I pay no attention to post history when it comes to voting behaviour; posts are as they are. I’m not much of a downvoter; it’s upvote or nothing unless a post is straight up awful inappropriate for the community it is in.
If it’s a niche subject that I’m interested in, I look at their post history in case they’ve found discussions that I’ve missed.
If it’s a particularly good, funny, extreme or otherwise “out there” post I do look at the post history for entertainment value, learning or just morbid curiosity.
I don’t care enough about votes to even vote, much less stalk someone. I don’t even understand why people care about votes.
I was like 13 years on reddit and never knew what my karma was and never looked at anyones profile, except once when all the replies were: dude your comment history is fucked, seek help.
Oh yeah, once there was a guy who signed all his comments with: latinos for trump.
And i went to check his comment history because i was sure it’s a troll or astroturfing or whatever. But after a good 5 seconds i realized that i don’t care
Not specifically in order to do upvote or downvote, but I enjoy looking through profiles when someone is interesting or seems extremist etc. While I’m there I might do some voting. I’m most interested in people who are either very nuanced (rare these days) or off-the-wall extreme.
Not to vote on their stuff, no - but definitely, when I see a take that’s shitty/stupid/weird enough, I’ll have a peek to see if they’re taking the piss, or trolling, or something.
I mainly look at profiles to see people’s avatars. I just think they’re neat.
No, I don’t. But sometimes I trawl a user profile to try and understand the person who made the comment a bit better.
I usually downvote rude comments. But if they have a genuine point to make and that’s the tone they take in all their comments, I’ll assume that they’re simply a bit awkward and don’t know they’re being rude.
Only when the person I argued with brings up something from my profile first. Was having an argument with someone who was claiming I’m misogynistic (can’t remember the context). Then they brought up something from my profile and I criticized them for the same. When I went through their profile they were giving suggestions to people about red light places to visit in the Phillipines…
Had a guy call me “boomer” online a couple of times. Had to point out that “boomer” was from “baby boomer” and those people were about 65 and over. Turned out he was in his 60s and the insult didnt register.
Never, I have many better things to do with my time. I’m honestly astonished that anyone can be bothered. I downvote the comment if I really dislike it and move right along
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