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.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • einlander@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • maxmm77@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I can’t down vote or see them in my instance which is really nice imo. But usually if I like it, I upvote it. Relatable, funny interesting.

  • junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    My account is on an instance that doesn’t implement downvotes, which I wasn’t sure about at first, but have grown to like. For me, it’s either worth an upvote, worth commenting on, or I just move on. It has changed how I engage with Lemmy a bit.

  • isyasad@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    I don’t have strict standards, but generally:

    • usually upvote someone who responds to me with something substantial, even if I disagree
    • downvote things that are antisocial (self-hate/self-harm, antinatalism, misanthropy)
  • EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    I ignore communities, posts, and comments that have no real thought behind them. This includes those that are just “educated” repetitions of culture-mantras, no matter what “side” or whatever they are on. Unfortunately, this is most of the internet these days.

    Because I appreciate thought, I upvote comments that someone activated some brain cells to write. I also upvote those that make me think, teach me something new, or just make me laugh.

    I downvote comments that are mean, aggressive, or otherwise demeaning to the person they are replying to - whether that person was me or someone else.

  • 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    I forgot to upvote most of the time. but when i do, it’s usually something that made me chuckle or laugh.

    Downvote, everything that has AI nonsense, musk, trump, big tech and the lot of them.

  • steeznson@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    upvote: comment is interesting or funny

    downvote: user is being rude (try not to downvote people I disagree with)