Waking up every day and drinking that Hatorade.

If you don’t like anything on the the platform, why stick around?

  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    Me:
    Total post upvotes: 3591
    Total post downvotes: 308
    Total comment upvotes: 15627
    Total comment downvotes: 2862

    I seem to upvote posts about 10 times as much as I downvote them, but comments only about 5 times as much. I need to get upvoting more comments.

  • Anas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    7 days ago

    If I had to guess, I also have more downvotes than upvotes, if you exclude my own content, which I’m pretty sure is counted for some reason.

    I don’t really tend to upvote much, I didn’t on Reddit either and I should probably work on that. On the other hand, while I don’t go through profiles to mass downvote, some users are tagged and deserve to be downvoted on sight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    I tend to downvote hateful content and disinformation. So is it “hatorade” to downvote hateful content and straight up lies?

    Though more often I reply back to tell people to tell them to try not to be so hateful and then I get downvoted. I cry myself to sleep every night when that happens :P

    While you’re judging people, someone else may be judging you. If you’re motivated by upvotes maybe consider going to reddit?

      • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
        41·
        7 days ago

        Maybe, it’s not clear:

        1. What you see in the image are the upvotes and downvotes I gave, not the ones I received.
        2. I’m on a Lemmy instance that does not have downvotes enabled at all. I can’t even downvote anything and if others click the downvote button on my posts/comments, nothing happens at all as far as I know. Maybe, their app shows that it worked, but I don’t think, anything happens.
        • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          if others click the downvote button on my posts/comments, nothing happens at all as far as I know.

          I think it shares the downvotes within that instance (possibly with other instances that allow downvoting) so anyone else viewing the post from the same instance as the user who downvoted will still see it and their browser will use that when sorting the posts.

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    24·
    8 days ago

    Sometimes I miss old forums where content was brought back up by simply posting within the topic (though that lead to the annoying and incessant “bump? bump? bump?” posts on threads people wouldn’t let die, i guess).

    Post voting is understandable as an alternative but it just leads to so much vanity as a result. Sites like this and reddit have so many dorks that are like “my fake internet points… how could you”. If it matters that much to you just shitpost all the time and you’ll get those numbers up

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Sometimes I miss old forums where content was brought back up by simply posting within the topic

      That’s how forums on Steam work and it makes them almost useless. The only posts you see are the rage bait from people farming Steam points from ‘Clown’ awards. Any meaningful post doesn’t get the same engagement as people trying to ‘slam the trolls into submission’ (FFS, how do people still not know you don’t feed the trolls?) so it gets pushed under all the bullshit.

      Lemmy’s system is good because there is no account wide total, so it really doesn’t matter if one of your posts gets a lot of upvotes and another gets a lot of downvotes, it just means one was good and other wasn’t.

      … And then you get people who really want some kind of account wide total for some reason so they go to websites that total up the number of times a user has given upvotes and downvotes…

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      8 days ago

      question about something specific (3w ago)

      nvm figured it out (3w ago)

      what was the solution? Im having the same issue (5m ago)

      [MOD] necroing resolved topics is against the TOS. Read the rules before posting. Banned 4 lyf sunnnnn (1m ago)

    • FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      Me too, it’s definitely had a fundamental impact on how people interact with each other online. But also, less page long flamewars is the silver lining I suppose lol

    • Plum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      8 days ago

      True neutral. Who’s gonna fight such a nice balance?

    • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
      34·
      7 days ago

      I mean… You have the options to upvote, to down vote and to not click a button. I haven’t seen 742 posts that were so terrible that I had to decide to down vote them.

      Down voting other opinions just because they do not match mine brings useless negativity. I don’t think, we need that on Lemmy.