My experience

A few hours ago, I commented on a post about a nuclear power plant in Georgia on lemmy.ml:

Why expensive nuclear reactors instead of cheaper renewables?

What happened? 8 likes, 11 dislikes

I am totally honest with you now: This makes me sad, because it’s the same behavior that I experienced on Reddit and why I deleted my account there. Different oppinion => Downvote!!! Now my comment has a “-3” score and I could think about deleting it. I won’t do it, but others would maybe do it. IMO, that’s how we create echo chambers.

I want to post what I like to (not what the 60-vs-40-majority of the platform likes me to post)…

So let me ask you these question:

  • When do you upvote 👍?
  • When do you downvote 👎?
  • When do you do neither 👍👎?

My answers:

When do you upvote? 👍

  • same opinion as mine
  • a post that I think should get more attention

When do you downvote? 👎

  • discrimination
  • trolls
  • irrationality, ignoring facts

When do you do neither? 👍👎

  • different opinion => I write a comment instead
  • posts I classify as “not interesting”
  • eldrichhydralisk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I vote on every post I see. That combined with the “hide read posts” setting means I always see new stuff on the front page.

    I upvote any post that I want to see more of in the community it was posted to. Posted game news in a gaming community? You get an upvote, whether or not I actually like or care about that game. I also upvote anything I don’t have any particular reason to downvote. It’s my default vote.

    I downvote any post I want to see less of. Clickbait titles or misspellings are an automatic downvote. Off topic posts are always a downvote. And any post that comes off as salty gets downvoted, especially if the post is salty about being downvoted. I just don’t want to see any of that, so I use my vote to discourage it.