Comment on Don't Make Me Tap The Sign

Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Cinnamon3431@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  disagree. downvote.

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• sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wholeheartedly agree with that. Also earlier when the dude was posting racist memes and everyone downvoted, I liked that usage.

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  • Blank@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is due to the fact that racist memes are never relevant, automatic downvote!

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• sgtlighttree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t that what was specified in the original reddiquette? Downvote to maintain quality, but not to disagree?

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  • Stoneykins@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is silly though, isn’t it? Most people think most things that they disagree with are low quality by nature of being something they disagree with.

    Whatever was intended for them, IMO upvotes and downvotes work because everyone just uses them however they want, and the sum total of everyone doing that averages out to a somewhat passable quality sorting system. Trying to tell people how to use their upvotes and downvotes is just yelling into the wind.

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  • cheesemonk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you’re downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion.

    From reddiquette. You are not supposed to downvote people you disagree with so long as they are contributing to the discussion. I’m not sure if I ever saw this guide line followed in my ten years of Reddit though.

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, that’s more than likely where I first learned about it.

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    • tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m kinda glad we downvote the things we disagree with. Whether on topic or not, shit opinions don’t deserve to be displayed with the same prominence as reasonable opinions.

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      • StinkyRedMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And that’s how a community become an echo chamber. Also assuming any opinion you agree with is reasonable and those you disagree with is shitty is silly…

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• hypelightfly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Intent is irrelevant. Humans don’t work that way and will continue to downvote what they don’t like/agree with and upvote what they do like/agree with. Creating a system that ignores how people work and asking them to please use it how you want will never work.

  Everyone should just embrace how it’s actually used and move on.

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• explodicle@local106.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use it as a “you should read this” button. Even if it’s offtopic, I’ll upvote if it’s funny or useful.

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  • tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like this explanation the best. Net vote count is a decent proxy for whether something is worth reading.

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