I can’t say I never downvote anyone but I get into these comment chains from time to time where really no matter what I post whoever I’m talking to downvotes every response but I generally shy away from downvoting even things I dislike. I don’t want to fall into an echo chamber where all I see are only the things I agree with.
Up and down votes are intended as indicators of quality that people abuse as markers of taste. If you downvote because the post/comment is unhelpful/useless/etc. that’s just voting as intended. If you are about to downvote because something is hateful, just report it to the mods instead. If you use certain clients, like Voyager, you will also see cumulative totals for your personal votes on users, which can be a great way to spot people you shouldn’t interact with, and probably just block. If you can’t tell the difference between people who are willfully nasty vs ignorant, maybe focus on learning to tell that rather than participate too much.
Nope. Fuck em.
What happens when em gets reversed for ya?
All of you disappear when I close the app. This isn’t my life. Do what you want.
Dang I was really hoping you were going to respond ‘Ay’ to be punny. Anyways, no one here disappears (I mean unless they died) they are still there existing and influencing the world all the same like you. The only thing that disappeared was your ability to communicate to them via the app when you closed it.
Yes its stupid because nobody uses them correctly. Its turned into a disagree button instead of “this doesnt belong here or add to the conversation” button.
Mad you got told off in womensstuff?
Mad?. Not at all. I actually apologized to who I could. I would have added an apology on the thread but I can’t.
You sure as hell seemed concerned about us for someone who isn’t upset.
I mean I’m mostly sorry for breaking the rules which is why I apologized, I goofed, human error gets us all from time to time. That circumstance totally makes sense and I’ve agreed time and time again that rule breaking deserves downvotes in this thread alone. Honestly I was thinking about other experiences I’ve had, particularly with some very verbally rude individuals.
So mad that he DMed me to make sure that our mods apply the rules equally. He was very concerned about our community turning into an echo chamber.
Oh damn. “Echo chamber” is usually the last cry of someone without an argument.
I goofed with the comment, I apologized to who I could. I would have added an apology but I can’t. So either way, sorry again.
I’ve been here 2-3 years and have up or down voted like 5 times. I just don’t care about it and don’t look at the numbers. Seems to work
Oh brother, this guy stinks
I go and upvote things I want to see more of.
Subjectively, I do not see a big diversity of opinions on Lemmy. Everyone seems to love Linux and communism and hate Windows and western politics.
Haven’t been here for that long though so maybe I’m missing out on some communities.
I see a number of different opinions and cultures, which is why I chose my instance. .Today doesn’t block, so I can pick what I want to see and browse by subscribed.
Scrolling the All feed on .world tends to be more of an echo chamber than selecting about a hundred individual communities to check regularly.
There are a lot of communities with more diversity once you dig around long enough. It’s worth it to go through the communities page and sort in different ways to see if anything catches your interest!
I am also really appreciative of users who link relevant communities in the comments!! I’ve found several comms that way.
I downvote comments if they are factually wrong, if they are mean or derogatory or if they are needlessly critical of another commenter. I personally don’t care if I get downvoted or even upvoted, I’m just here to speak my mind, hear others opinions, rant or vent or sometimes engage in a pleasant text conversation with a stranger.
Ditto.
why the hell do you care about any of this?
maybe the better strategy is to not care about what internet strangers think about you?
Views, engagement and votes determine what people see and what they don’t as well as how they feel about it. What people see shapes their views. Their views shape their behavior. Their behavior shapes the world. It’s worthwhile for an online community to not become just another pointless echo chamber.
It’s worthwhile for an online community to not become just another pointless echo chamber.
It’s worthwhile for men to respect when women want to gather on our own and talk about things without men’s voices.
I’m not sure that constitutes an echo chamber necessarily. Women alone obviously have very diverse opinions on topics, same for men and non-binary people. Now if there’s a specific narrative and everyone agrees and any disagreement or questioning is seen as an attack then that’s probably an echo chamber.
Oh you absolutely thought it did when you DMed me to argue about making sure the rules are being applied equally in womensstuff.
More so to apologize but yeah rules should be applied equally since there was another guy in those same threads although i don’t agree with the point they were making.
I’d be really curious to know if you DM other community members with the same concern after you’ve been reprimanded for breaking the rules.
I can send you my login credentials if you want.
according to who? you?
the vast majority of people disagree with you, and their votes count just as much as yours. they prefer the echo chamber.
You’re supposed to downvote. If something is off topic especially, but also if something is toxic or against the rules.
If there was a community where the joke was “you can only reply PANTS” and then someone started to comment about the downfall of capitalism, you downvote that shit into oblivion even if you agree with it out of context.
Off topic tends to be used very subjectively, particularly if someone just dislikes the comment. Particularly when someone takes one line from a comment that’s on topic to say the comment is off topic. Not always of course but it’s rare so far as I’ve seen.
Now as for breaking rules or just being verbally violent, most definitely.
I don’t think off topic is very subjective that often, and if you’re not sure just don’t vote. I gave an example of off topic behavior and, you know, it was too help you out. So you wouldn’t feel so bad about down voting. And then you tried to bicker with me about the details.
Commenting “as a man” in a women’s only community will get you downvoted even if it’s on topic.
I just down vote when I see low quality content or irrelevant or poorly supported arguments. I have upvoted takes I disagree with and then commented about why I disagree. It’s not supposed to be a disagree button, it’s suppressed to be a “move this down in the feed” button.
Nope!
I don’t even care about the accidental ones that happen from scrolling while tired.
Worst that happens is the hot feed gets negligibly shifted until the next person comes along.
I’m not sure if ur profile picture is real, but in case it is: You, sir have a magnificent beard!
Alas, it isn’t me.
However, I picked it partly because the guy looks enough like me to be a close relative, and my beard is very similar :)
I think there’s more users like you than me. I appreciate the candid answer.
Yeah, I try to give everyone uppies unless they’re being a bigger jerk than me. The accidental downvotes, they happen but like I usually catch them
Here, it is usually because I didn’t say things in the right way some leftists want.
Yeah the political aspect of Lemmy is quite ubiquitous and specific. I’m neither left or right in that I would prefer a science based political system that optimizes HDI, GDPPP, and environmental impact. Any dissent or questioning either way is typically met with downvotes in the respective areas where people have a political leaning right or left.
Votes don’t matter. Upvotes can’t pay your rent or buy food. Downvotes won’t put you in prison.
Vote however you want, that’s why it’s here.
It does depend how we are defining what matters. By your definition very few things matter. As a location for discourse it matters in how people related to said discourse in that votes can help push or diminish narratives and craft a location that is or is not an echo chamber. We’re all aware what people see shapes their views and their views shape their actions and their actions shape the world. So I’m not sure I agree that the culture of a platform, the content that is pushed doesn’t matter.
It depends on how an individual consumes Lemmy. I don’t see votes and my client neither buries nor highlights comments based on votes. I only browse by new or active.
This means that votes have little to no impact to what I consume or interact with.
As I’ve said elsewhere. I don’t care if you downvote, I’ve seen what you upvote.
I like how it’s easy to see how many up and down votes you have, and not just total like on reddit.
I’m using boost so that doesn’t seem to be a thing. Are you mainly on the website or another third party app?
Mainly Voyager app. Checked the piefed site, looks like it groups together and you need to long press over a vote to see distribution. Well, yeah, that’s worse.
