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.
Vibe. That’s it. I just vibe vote.
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.
Upvote: I’d like to see/read more of this. Downvote: I’d like to see/read less of this.
I did this with all the stupid moth memes. I want to see less of this so I downvoted them all. (Along with blocking a few communities)
To me upvote/downvote means approval/disapproval, not necesarily agree/disagree. So I’ve upvoted different posts and comments with different points of view if they are argumented well for and polite.
I do not vote when I skimm the post/comment.
That is basically it.
I don’t know. I just wing it.
I downvote if it looks like they are posting in bad faith. I’ll upvote some comments that I disagree with if the poster was trying to contribute to the conversation – I usually do that to offset the fact that they’ve been downvoted a bunch already.
Many of the communities I’m in are fairly small, so I upvote almost every comment that I read. I figure it lets someone know that someone else read what they wrote, and I think that’s what a lot of us are here for.
Upvote: the things I want others to read.
Downvote: the things I’d rather see buried.
inciting violence, no matter against whom (people seem to forget this is a straight up crime, sometimes a felony)
Just gonna repeat what I said about this in another thread about this:
It is illegal only if it is reasonably going to trigger or calls for any immediate lawlessness. Like straight up trying to get a bunch of people together to knock-over a convenience store or actually organizing a murder.
Saying “man, I wish this evil son of a bitch took a round in the face” is not such a time.
I was banned from Reddit for inciting violence by saying “I’m surprised Kanye hasn’t murder/suicided Kim or Taylor yet” like how tf is that inciting violence? Kanye himself is going for read that?? Is Kanye the one who reported me?
Upvote - i like it :)
No vote - i don’t like it or don’t care
My instance doesn’t have downvotes
Downvotes : genocide and occupation apologist Upvotes : posts or comment i find interesting No votes : Things i disagree with but it’s opinion based
Up:
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interesting posts that are on-topic for the muni
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posts in any community that have spawned interesting comments
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comments that are cogent or thoughtful replies
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comments that are funny jokes
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comments that explore a perspective I’ve never seen before
down:
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complaining about downvotes
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posts that are rule-breaking or off-topic for the community
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posts or comments with slurs, including misogynistic slurs
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misinformation, disinformation, and unfunny trolling
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advocacy for antisocial or unethical behavior (NB: illegal is isn’t disqualifying)
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incivility, over-the-top hostility, and petty bickering
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rhetorical sins like sealioning, the gish gallop, begging the question, and so on
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posts linking to videos that don’t provide a text summary
downvote and report:
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hate speech
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wishing harm or self-harm
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spam
Had to look up these rhetorical sins and learned something new today, thanks.
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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.
Upvote: well written, adds something to the discussion
Downvote: low effort, hurtful or rage bait
I make a point of not using downvotes as an “I disagree” button. If an opinion is presented well, it may still add something to the discussion even if it doesn’t match my personal preferences.
I universally downvote things that objectify women
Upvote:
- Something I like
- Something I agree with
- Something funny
- A great point for an opposing view
Neutral:
- Something I don’t care about
- Something I agree with, but is incoherent/ confusing
- Things I disagree with, but is politely presented and has decent arguments
Downvote:
- Something I think is trolling/Bigotry
- Agendaposting
- Something I agree with, but has terrible argument or presented in an offensive way
- Something I disagree with, and is incoherent/confusing/presented in an offensive way
- If the post/comment is so confusing I don’t even know which side they are arguing for
- Wildly Offtopic for the thread/comunity
Upvote:
- Everything I see, even if I don’t agree with it or even understand it. Lemmy is small, and upvotes can help someone feel good.
Downvote:
- Anything meant to harm others. Malicious misinformation, hurtful comments, bigotry, etc.
- AI art
