100%. Content sorting is (to my understanding) handled by peer vote rather than any kind of central algorithm on Lemmy by default, so a vote is much less about agreement/disagreement, and much more about doing your part in the process of separating the wheat from the chaff imo.
In my view, even a (non-bot) lurker who only views/votes is still contributing to the community, because they still add another data point for sorting. It’s a collective effort that generates a collective content algorithm, so a person should vote accordingly.
Steve@communick.news 3 days ago
That’s the ideal.
But I think most people conflate those with agree and disagree.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
That’s still consistent, normal people don’t want people they disagree with to be seen by other people.
Only debate perverts would upvote something they disagree with, because they want people to see it.
TheFogan@programming.dev 3 days ago
agreed that’s human nature at it’s core. Reddits tried for years to push the “Upvote things that bring good discussion, downvote things that don’t”. But yeah humans always will be humans, I don’t see a time when a majority will ever follow that understanding, though I try my best to still follow it.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
That’s true. I don’t think it’s generally a problem, but I do find it funny when you see someone politely correct someone else deep in a chain where no one else is reading, and the correction says “0”.
To anyone who downvotes like that: you look like an insecure clown.