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.
Upvote - i like it :)
No vote - i don’t like it or don’t care
My instance doesn’t have downvotes
Upvote: the things I want others to read.
Downvote: the things I’d rather see buried.
I don’t downvote (At least not intentionally, but if I fall asleep while holding my there can be some accidental taps). Even if something seems somewhat offensive to me.
On the other hand, I don’t upvote as much as I think I should.
When a meme is funny enough to send to my wife, upvote.
When I see that one dude post his daily game screenshot, downvote.
I am simple man.
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?
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
Up: comment adds to conversation or makes me laugh
Down: comment talks about upvotes/downvotes, is hateful, is blatant misinformation, is just a gif, is completely unrelated to the conversation, is a clickbait video with a clickbait thumbnail
No vote: everything else.
Up: I like it or agree
Down: I dislike it or disagree.upvote: comment is interesting or funny
downvote: user is being rude (try not to downvote people I disagree with)
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)
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.
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 is mostly if I want better visibility for the post and that is the intended feature even if you do not agree. Sometimes I upvote comments that I like, because comments are not really about that and more about opinion. I do not have downwote option on my instance, nor can I see the down votes which is fine for me.
I see you are a bigger person than me (I genuinely mean that, because this can be seen as sarcasm)
Downvotes for spammers, spreading misinformation disinformation and propaganda, know it all comments which starts with" by the way or actually,etc" in a condescending manner. Also for people targeting one person specifically and trying to to make a offensive sarcastic joke in a way so they don’t get banned.
