When you see something has too much up or down votes, does this change your point of view? Also how many people hides votes and etc?
Edit: also is there any eay yo disable scores like 100%😀 in voyager for lemmy?
I don’t care about the rating on other people’s content. On my own I only care so far as to use it as a guideline for whether I actually was interesting.
On reddit I was a trolling karma whore, but here? Here I’m much more about engaging with people and getting 3 upvotes tells me that I gave the community something meaningful.
When in comes to my own posts and comments, my trust in vague negative reactions is long gone.
Some things that made me more suspicious of Lemmy users:
- Most criticism of one thing was vague and often mentioned my mental health. And the only non-vague comment was targeted at the involved Catholic beliefs/values and my unusual sense of humor.
- I banned someone for 1 day for saying “So, am I right in assuming that OP has untreated schizophrenia? Wtf is this word vomit?” and someone described this as “banned a guy because he said you write poorly” which is a very weird interpretation. I obviously would not have gived a ban if the comment just said “you write poorly”.
For me, taking online feedback less seriously was a big part of growing up.
I check my downvotes every so often to see if I’ve made an ass of myself.
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Thankfully, people often explain they’re downvotes here, so I tend to learn something.
If I haven’t internalized whatever it is, I’ll find that their still downvoting me, so I get another chance to improve there opinion of me.
Edit: Good point. Warning added.
I downvoted because of the thing
Downvoting for “they’re, there, their” gore, mark it NSFL next time sheesh
/s
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But actually though
I’m onto you’re plan
There are only two things I think about when it comes to vote count:
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if I make a joke, and it’s not being replied to but being downvoted I want to know if people understood the joke, understood it even was a joke, or if the joke was just not funny.
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If I see a question being asked that doesn’t appear to be in bad faith being downvoted, and not answered, it pisses me off.
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Yes and no. The same comment on different communities can have vastly different results, so I think it’s too easy to just “justify” why the ratios you don’t agree with are there, while the ones you do are obviously “fair”
Yes, but actually no. Upvotes are are similar to seeing someone’s smile or nodding in agreement. Downvotes are like a dead stare or shaking their head in disagreement.
If someone else is downvoted but seems to have posted in good faith or as a joke it means there is probably something I am missing. Maybe they are serious when I think it is a joke, or there is some context that is news to me.
If I have a commwnt that is downvoted significantly (like ten or more down than up, or only down) then I double check to see if I was unclear or maybe a joke didn’t land. Mostly to make sure my intent came though.
If I clarify something and people just don’t agree with it because they don’t see the same nuance then I do think about it a but and come back later to see if maybe I was wrong or everyone else is a dumbass. Most of the time it is me not being clear enough. If they are dumbasses, oh well.
I also feel happy when a good comment gets upvoted to double digits. That is a nice feeling.
Thats not what downvotes are.
Downvotes aren’t for disagreeing. Its for misinformation, hate speech, etc.
Keep telling yourself that.
What are you saying?
Downvotes are frequently used for disagreement no matter what the intended use is supposed to be. Heck, a lot of the time people assume comments are misinformation when the person voting just disagrees. People often upvote misinformation because they agree with it too.
But feel free to keep telling yourself that everyone is using votes the way they are ‘intended to be used’ instead of how they are actually used which is ‘I agree that this is accurate and/or find this funny’ or ‘I disagree with the post because it is wrong/contradicts my existing knowledge/is worded insultingly’.
There seems to be a general agreement that people should avoid communities that promote misinformation instead of downvoting it as well, which I find contradicts the idea of downvoting misinformation being a purpose.
So you’re saying that people here are dumb and spread misinformation? Interesting. Sounds like we have some educating to do.
Yes. Downvotes allow a well educated community to bury misinformation
Or an uneducated community to bury real information 😆
We shouldn’t allow uneducated people to participate in our communities
The intention behind most downvotes is
Usually, no. Not for myself or others. Too many people vote emotionally for them to be useful feedback in most situations.
They also aren’t useful in short time frames on lemmy. I’ve lost track of how many people get whiny about votes, but they just didn’t wait for things to balance out. It’s lemmy, shit takes hours to spread and get seen, especially since not everyone sorts by new. Chill the fuck out.
But sometimes, they can be a warning sign, or an indicator of a successful comment/post. And other times, they can help realize you posted or commented in the wrong place.
