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I use a Misskey platform to interact with the Fediverse as a whole (and especially with Lemmy and the threadiverse), among other reasons, purposefully because I can't cast downvotes onto others' contents. Even the "👎" emoji reaction, if I wanted to use it, doesn't count as a downvote from Lemmy's perspective.
Yeah, some things I see make me want to downvote, but I prefer commenting and replying as to why I'm disagreeing with that content, instead of treating human beings and their content as numeric computer variables (and as a former programmer, I'm well aware of how communication among living beings can't be replaced by zeros and ones).
The same applies in the other direction: I'm fond of people who disagree with me by actually stating what/why they disagree, instead of clicking a numeric button. If you ever disagreed with me and took the effort to try and tell me what you disagreed with and why, my sincere thanks for being a human being towards another human being!
After all, we're gathering on a set of social platforms whose main feature is discussion board and, IMHO, numbers can't possibly contribute to a discussion, especially open-ended discussions and artistic expression... if social interaction is to be replaced with numeric reactions, communication and content creation becomes pointless: why should I, as a content creator, spend the effort (sometimes I spend literal hours on the same reply/post/comment) composing something if the reaction will be numeric?
!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
fizzle@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
I do know exactly what you’re talking about.
When you get 5 or 6 responses deep no-one else is reading along it’s just you and the other person. When each of your replies receives 1 downvote it’s obviously from the other person just downvoting everything you say. It’s just petty and childish and I’m not going to stoop to that.
That said, I do downvote comments that I feel deserve less prominence for whatever reason.
As an aside, piefed shows a user’s “attitude” on their profile. Your’s is 98%, mine is 62%. I think that means 62 of my last 100 votes were upvotes.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Idk sometimes I’m reading a long a deep thread and someone who was arguing in good faith starts acting like a petulant toolbag. I will give downvotes then when they are 1-0, but I always kind of worry in the back of my mind that whoever I gave a downvote to will just think it’s the other guy. Other people read deeper on threads than you would think.
fizzle@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Personally I don’t see much point in voting either way in a thread like that. You’re using the vote button to express disagreement but you don’t have anything to say or contribute.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Exactly, also thanks for the knowledge. Still new-ish to the fediverse and unaware of all the differences of different locations. I could see that being valid to be public, like if someone is at 4% they’re just miserable.
fizzle@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Not sure why all your comments are being down voted?