Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit?

Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree that votes don’t matter at all. Now please, except my humbly casted vote for you in the upward direction :D But no, I think psychologically speaking, votes actually do kind of matter because of mob mentality. If the first thing you see is something overwhelmingly negative, you’re more likely to think negatively. This was tested and seems to be the case, if people see a bunch of negative comments on something, they are more like to join in on the mob and downvote or be negative

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which is exactly why you shouldn’t have them on. Form your own opinions, don’t just go with the mob.

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• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, and they don’t matter so who gives a shit.

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They affect visibility so they still matter to an extend

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    • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you care about visibility sure, I’m just here to post and respond. I don’t really care if my comments are higher or lower in the list than someone else’s.

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    • nomous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like that if they matter at all it’s only in the context of the thread. The points aren’t tied necessarily tied to your account in a long term way so points don’t matter at the end of the day.

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