Waking up every day and drinking that Hatorade.

If you don’t like anything on the the platform, why stick around?

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, I vote on almost everything, too. I bet you don’t downvote over 99.5% of the posts you see lol

      • fdnomad@programming.devEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Turns out I upvote 98.68% of posts and 98.76% of comments.

        Total post upvotes: 55805
Total post downvotes: 748
Total comment upvotes: 4793
Total comment downvotes: 60
  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I tend to downvote hateful content and disinformation. So is it “hatorade” to downvote hateful content and straight up lies?

    Though more often I reply back to tell people to tell them to try not to be so hateful and then I get downvoted. I cry myself to sleep every night when that happens :P

    While you’re judging people, someone else may be judging you. If you’re motivated by upvotes maybe consider going to reddit?

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Sometimes I miss old forums where content was brought back up by simply posting within the topic (though that lead to the annoying and incessant “bump? bump? bump?” posts on threads people wouldn’t let die, i guess).

    Post voting is understandable as an alternative but it just leads to so much vanity as a result. Sites like this and reddit have so many dorks that are like “my fake internet points… how could you”. If it matters that much to you just shitpost all the time and you’ll get those numbers up

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      question about something specific (3w ago)

      nvm figured it out (3w ago)

      what was the solution? Im having the same issue (5m ago)

      [MOD] necroing resolved topics is against the TOS. Read the rules before posting. Banned 4 lyf sunnnnn (1m ago)

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    8 months ago

    f____g@lemmy.zip?

    I have no idea who that is - your alt?

    Downvoting is valid. You saying it equals hate says more about you than about the downvoters.

    edit: hm, apparently this is about the user doing the downvoting, not being downvoted? Still, this is badly anonymized, and that’s my main point.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
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      8 months ago

      My instance of choice decided to unilaterally and without any warning whatsoever disable downvotes. Just to “try it out”.

      I’m still pissed about it to this day.

      I mean that google removes any kind of downvotes is one stupid thing, but that people think this makes content “better” is crazy to me.

      Now I do understand that in small communities the weight of a super negative account can be quite an issue… But is removing completely any negative feedback the solution ? Really, it’s all we got ?

      Also the simple fact that a lot of this community is from Reddit, IMO it’s not okay to disable a feature like that without even voting on it.

      So if you think disabling negative feedback fixes an issue, you have the burden to prove or at least explain the reasoning.

      I do think it didn’t make YouTube any less of a cesspool to disable downvotes on it…

      Edit : Also while votes are not supposed to replace moderation, they certainly help limiting the reach of spammers. Like if the mods are asleep at least the community can bury the post in the meantime. But no, they just disabled downvotes and made a post about the change the same day. Wtf.

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I have no idea who that is

      I know exactly who this is, even without the username tip-off. Here’s what their record looked like in September:

      I happened across the user when looking into a string of -1’s on brand new posts in a small community. They were all the same person, and that person downvoted 244 times for each upvote.

      This on its own is not normal behavior. Combine it with this user’s comments - which are pretty much completely on brand for the average Lemmy user - and it becomes even more bizarre.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Ah yes. Penis measuring. But instead of measuring penises we’re measuring something even more arbitrary.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I’m not sure it’s as useless of a measurement.

      If you have a small penis, you’ll disappoint a handful of people

      This guy disappointed thousands.

    • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I mean… You have the options to upvote, to down vote and to not click a button. I haven’t seen 742 posts that were so terrible that I had to decide to down vote them.

      Down voting other opinions just because they do not match mine brings useless negativity. I don’t think, we need that on Lemmy.

    • k_rol@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I’m not too far from that as well. I’m surprised with my take on content.

  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Sticking my neck out a bit to share my general views and habits on voting to maybe add some other things to consider.

    My general mindset is that each community sets rules on posts and comments, and that ideally only appropriate things should then be posted. So I typically only think to upvote stuff when there’s an even greater than normal amount of effort or thought put into something, or to counteract dogpile downvotes to an appropriate post/comment.

    Say I’m browsing a motorcycle community and one user posts a meme about bikes, and someone else poses a story about learning to ride; if my preference is for text posts instead of images I could just upvote the story post and not the meme, but both posts are related to the community and belong there. I could upvote both (and by extension all posts) but then what’s the difference if everything is +1 or +0? If memes are disallowed, I can downvote and report the post to push it down to hopefully keep others from having to see it or encourage them to post their own.

    I will also downvote nearly 100% of extremely low-effort pointless comments like “THIS”, “lol”, URL shortened or amp/tracking including links without context etc. A post in another language but marked as English I will also downvote, foreign language communities/instances I just block. I block most meme and shitpost style communities so I’m not looking to vote police what other people enjoy, but doing this stuff in science/news/hobby/etc. communities is inappropriate.

    So that’s generally how I behave on Lemmy (and previously on Reddit) - I’m generally more “on the lookout” for bad content, and not looking to boost things that belong here. I don’t rely on voting to maintain my feed, my block lists are also enormous.

    A more semi-recent phenomenon is accounts spam posting a bunch of (relevant) links and then self-deleting - I can’t block that account to hide their posts, but as I’m scrolling through my feed I will downvote every single post they made regardless of its quality etc. I’m not going to rehash arguments about whether their behavior is acceptable or not (“they are posting relevant stuff, who cares if they’re acting in bad faith!”) but since there’s generally 2-3 of those accounts per day spam posting junk that’s a lot of downvotes from me to a lot of different communities including some I’m not subscribed to. I’m not going to bother reporting every single post, and until there’s a method to easily directly report a user I’m not going to bother trying that anymore.

    Just wanted to put that out there that there might be other legitimate users that have wildly disproportionate voting numbers and that it might not be malicious or careless in nature. I don’t know if Lemmy ignores them like Reddit (supposedly?) does, but I’ve never mass voted from a user’s history. It’s only from comments and posts that were presented to me during my normal browsing.