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Lemmings, how do you use updoots and downvotes? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tend to upvote a post when it Links an interesting article or provokes an interesting conversation, and only downvote them when they voice an convectively bad opinion (like, bigotry or other unjustified vitriol).

I tend to upvote comments when they make a good point or at least try to support their argument, and only downvote them for the same reason as posts: when they are trolling, being unnecessarily aggressive, or trying to justify bigotry with fallacious reasoning or something

What about you?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I upvoted anything and downvote nude

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I try to reserve downvotes for bad faith commenters, though I downvoted some of the ai generated jeans spammers too when that started to get real old.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

...AI generated jeans spammers? What did I miss?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Jeans and beans

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

If I see a post and I want to see more posts like that in that community, I updoot. If I want to see less posts like that in that community, I downvote. Nothing more complicated than that.

So if you post a cute cat pic to a community about cats or cute things, I'm updooting it. Not even super concerned with how well I looked that specific pic, I want to see cute cat pics there and you provided one so you get the updoot.

But if I'm in a discussion-based community and you post something with a clickbait title, I downvote. Doesn't matter if you're technically still on topic, I want to see less of that nonsense so I downvote it.