Same as you. I upvote more to keep track of who responds to me so that I can speed-scroll and still spot my interactions. Meanwhile, I only downvote pure malice.
I downvote comments that I feel are not constructive to the conversation. This includes things like unnecessary aggression / attacking, spreading misinformation, using offensive slurs or language, and trolling. I don’t downvote based on differences of opinion - in fact I upvote people who disagree with me if they’ve engaged in a respectful and genuine way. I also upvote comments that I think are well written and insightful. Sometimes I upvote comments that have been downvoted and I can’t see a valid reason as to why.
I upvote comments like this that make me think "you seem like a grounded human that I'd want to have more visibility". I'm actually a bit of a stickler with upvotes, it takes an actual show of politeness or good content to get me to upvote.
My upvote to downvote ratio is probably 1:3. I downvote mostly short messages that don’t bring any value into the discussion. These are usually “fuck this guy” and “fuck this system” etc. Then again I sometimes upvote comments I disagree with only because they’re atleast putting some effort into it and are not afraid to bring up an alternative view point or something. Basically I’m using the voting to indicate what kind of messages I want more and what I want less.
Personally, I kind of never intuitively thought up and down analogous to “good” or “bad”, rather I’ve always just thought of them as signal boosting and signal… uh, diminishing?
I.e I upvote stuff I think more people should see, and downvote things I think nobody should see. Neither of which directly correlate with good or bad or my level of agreement.
Came here to say this. Upvote something (usually posts - I don’t worry about comments) I think should be more visible to people, and only downvote if it’s something I feel shouldn’t get more oxygen.
I rarely vote anywhere. I think it’s a toxic habit for many platforms and it fucks with some peoples brain.
Example:
Voice your sincere opinion that you really like blueberry ice cream. Get downvoted because someone thinks raspberry is better but just gave a downvote and no reason. Spend the rest of the day wondering why.
I’ll upvote any constructive interaction, but I think a big reason why aggregators got popular was the ability for a user manifest their general disagreement with something in a way that can impact the visibility of that info. So I don’t think the overall nature of upvotes/downvotes could manage to be substantially different to Reddit or any other aggregator. The user behaviour is ultimately determined by the availability of the function, rather than the nature of the community that uses the platform/function
That is bizzare behaviour, I havent blocked anyone on lemmy yet. I mean theres like 20 users in total. I see someome comment on a post of mine and think oh yeah i remember that username. Its a really small space.
I don't block much, but I have seen a number of shameless ad accounts and a number of rabid fascist accounts, and life's too short to listen to either of those.
I’ll glance at someone’s comment history before blocking them. If they were merely unusually angry (or maybe I just didn’t get their joke), whatever. It happens. If they’re an asshole on a regular basis, though, I don’t need to see their next tantrum. Time for a block.
I’ve blocked 130 users so far and usually add few people to that list every day.
Even on a small place like Lemmy there’s still way more content than I can pay attention to. If I see someone posting stupid shit and I go see their profile and discover that’s the only kind of content they post then by blocking them I just increase the signal to noise ratio on my feed. Quality over quantity.
However I try to stick to my principles when blocking. One “fuck this person” -message doesn’t get you blocked unless by a quick glance I can find several of them in your history.
Also my instance has defederated like 20 instances so that alone probably adds 500 users to that list.
If it helps contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way, I’ll vote it up. Even for things I disagree with. Disagreeing is for comments.
If it does not contribute in a meaningful way, I’ll vote it down. If they’re being nasty, spreading misinformation without 10s of research, or otherwise making the topic harder to communicate, down it goes.
If there isn’t an obvious reason why things should go up or down, I don’t vote. If the vote needs some explanation, I add a comment unless someone already said what I meant to say. Then I vote on that.
Up and down does not mean yes and no to questions. Up and down doesn’t mean agree or disagree on a subjective level. Otherwise, imagine what it would be like if you translated the context to real life. A bunch of drama queens not saying anything to each other.
Agree with everything, and I applied my own little rule too witch states that if I comment or reply to something, then I have to upvote whatever I’m replying to, no matter what I think of it.
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