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.