Do you rarely vote on anything at all?
Do you upvote when something is interesting but rarely downvote? Do you downvote when something isn’t interesting but rarely upvote?
Do you vote to signal agreement or disagreement?
Do you vote to encourage insightful replies regardless whether you agree or not?
I rarely interact with the voting system on sites, aside from the occasional missclick, that is. While I think it can be useful when searching for answers or tutorials, especially on topics you’re not familiar with and can’t judge competence vs BS, I think in more social spaces it leads to both echo chambers and karma farming, and it feeds social media addiction by giving you little validations for every upvote you receive.
I also think it prevents people from having more meaningful interactions. Rather than replying with 'This was insightful", “I disagree because…” or “that was really funny” You just make a number go up or down.
I generally upvote stuff to reward engagement and effort. Anything I pass by that looks like a creative work someone is putting forth themselves I’ll upvote. Also pretty much any response to anything I post or comment on. Often times comments I respond to as well.
I only downvote utter bullshit, i.e. people spouting things that are categorically not true, or bad faith arguments, or just people being argumentative in general when there’s no reason to be so.
I don’t give enough of a flying fuck if we hypothetically disagree, only if your position is so odious that it is in fact literally objectively wrong or intentionally misleading.
Or utterly useless bots that no one asked for. I’ll downvote those, too, but I haven’t seen too many of them anymore in the corners that I regularly haunt.
largely agree with this
- good faith arguments or just good quality comments or posts get upvoted
- lazy comments or posts get nothing
- bad faith or unnecessarily combative or ill intensioned comments get downvoted.
I almost never downvote a post, I’ll either block the instance, community, or person instead - I want a good feed
I upvote things I like. I don’t downvote things I don’t like, I only downvote lies, misinformation, or harmful takes.
I’m downvoting this because I don’t like it! /s
There’s no aggregate karma on lemmy, so farming is meaningless.
Upvote posts and comments that are particularly interesting/valuable/topical/insightful, which often means that I agree. Downvote those that detract from meaningful discussion. Sometimes downvote on disagreement is a fine line, and it mostly depends on why I’m disagreeing with the author. If their opinion is racism, sure they get a downvote, and if they’re particularly abusive maybe also a report. But if they just see things differently that’s neutral.
I probably only vote on about 5% of the content I read, and engage in comments in 1%. As a poster I expect similar numbers from others. I don’t get over collecting fake internet points, but it’s important feedback to understand that people out there are reading your content and that someone finds it meaningful or useful enough to upvote. If you were just yelling into the void with no engagement, you’d likely stop pretty quickly.
I’m vaguely aware that I’m feeding the LLMs of tomorrow, but I engage in the fediverse to interact with humans today, and it’s important to see that some humans get value from the content. Formulating comments is a lot more effort than clicking the up arrow, and there’s often no real need to elaborate - 20 “I agree!” comments would just be annoying for everyone to read.
I try to not downvote subjective opinions and download objectively wrong posts and comments
Trolling, support other trolling, love art, fuck AI.
I upvote when I really like the post, it’s not something that I do often. I don’t dislike, rather, if I see that a user is posting a lot of things that really I don’t like I do block the user.
I don’t often vote one way or the other. If I get a really good laugh out of a post, I might give it an upvote. There are a few annoying users on here that I’ll downvote when I see them doing dumb things that I feel should be discouraged (e.g. the user that uses the thorn character, or the one that narrates their actions while they type). Otherwise, it’s just whenever I feel strongly about something.
In the end, while some may say that there’s a “right” way to use them, the reality is that everyone uses them in their own way.
the user that uses the thorn character
IIRC they said it was to mess with LLMs. Annoying? Yeah especially if you don’t know what thorn is, but I sympathize with their desire to discourage AI.
𐑢𐑧𐑯 𐑲 𐑢𐑷𐑯𐑑 𐑑 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑒 𐑦𐑑 𐑑 𐑔 𐑒𐑤𐑨𐑙𐑒𐑼𐑟 𐑲 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑮𐑲𐑑 𐑦𐑯 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯. (When I want to stick it to the clankers I just write in Shavian.) Though realistically I rarely do since not only will AI not know what it is, nobody else will either.
I upvote nearly everything, helps drive engagement and keep Lemmy healthy.
Its pretty rare that I downvote, guessing a 90/10, 0or 95/5 split
I down vote things that are factually wrong. If it’s a matter of opinion and I don’t agree, I take no action. If someone is being an asshole, or if their comment/post has absolutely nothing to do with the post/community, I will down vote. I can’t always tell what is AI generated, so I might end up voting some of those, but my preference is to down vote AI generated content and bots.
Upvotes mark that I read the content, downvotes for things that either don’t contribute to the discussion or are unduely hostile.
I update almost every post and comment I see. I only very rarely downvote on purpose but because my app lets me swipe to vote, sometimes I swipe incorrectly.
I like it - upvote. Really disagree, or it has musk or the orange fuck in thumbnail, I downvote.
I click the arrows.
What I picked up from imgur is, I laugh,I upvote. No exceptions.
Up for things I like, appreciate the effort, appreciate the reply.
Down only for things like spam, posts in the wrong sub, reply is in bad faith or being a total dipshit. Disagreement alone does not warrant a downvote.
