Do you care about up/down votes?

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• LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sometimes when I’m not doing too great and see loads of shit during my daily doomscrolling, I can get very synical, harsh and bold. When I get several downvotes, it can be a sign I’m in this negative depressing mood and I need to light up and be more open to others. It usually takes a while as first I fee like explaining myself making things worse, but in the end it let’s me think “hey dude, stop, take some distance. You’re not like this and your behavior is pulling you further down. Do something fun instead, stay away from comment sections and put away your phone completely and meet some friends or something”.

  It’s a struggle sometimes.

  Upvotes always help with the short endorphins boost, even though I don’t want to admit it. I got rid of all social media except YouTube and Lemmy. Yes, I’m I search of approval, again, not what I’m proud of. Because I want to get rid of this addiction and doomscrolling.

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• Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My opinion? No, don’t care. For the other stuff I share I would like to know; how many people are interacting with the community, for instance. How big is the niche music Community I’m on? I can see how many people have subscribed (And I’m unsure if that is across servers, or just on the local server), but it tells me nothing if half of them have left since they signed up.

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• madjo@feddit.nl ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can get upset if my post gets a few downvotes, like -5 or something, but oddly when it reaches -10 or lower it doesn’t affect me. Though it’s rare for me to see my posts go that deeply down.

  Upvotes on my posts feel nice.

  When I see it with other people who get downvoted because their jokes are misunderstood or if their argument isn’t well received but they meant well and it was on topic, I feel bad for them and give them an upvote (even when I don’t agree with them).
  Though some people deserve their downvotes, if it’s clear that they don’t belong in that community or are arguing in obvious bad faith. I don’t often give out downvotes, but those people tempt me

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, not really.

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• sanderium@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I treat downvotes/upvotes as disapprove/approve, and I care in the sense of finding out what I’m asking for or if I say something incorrect to be called out and perhaps to measure interest.

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• moakley@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If something has no downvotes, I might second guess downvoting it. For example sometimes I downvote bad typos, but I usually won’t if the post doesn’t have any downvotes.

  You already have a couple of downvotes…

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• Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t, but I guess I do rely on them to float popular stuff up in my feed. After that, I couldn’t care less.

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Usually whenever I see a ton of downvotes its people doing the exact thing and I keep seeing it. Person makes strawman (ex: I say “I like socialism” and person responds “uh ok tankie, what about the holdomor”). I respond like a dumbass (I really should stop responding to low effort bad faith actors). They “own” me because world will mass downvote anyone who says uncomfortable truth and mass upvotes popular lies (damn this place really is like Reddit). Then I become the uneducated person who makes assumptions because I made the stupid mistake of responding. Yes I expert to be mass downvoted on this because the entire system is meant to incentive opinions you personally agree with in mass hoards of floads not opinions of any inherent value.

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