Anybody else gets more upvotes in here than over THAT site?
I could swear to God I never hit the 10 mark over there. In here as long as it isn’t a “^this” I get 10-20, and solidly hit the 50 mark if I comment something truly meaningful.
Nope. For whatever reason, I was drowning in upvotes in the other place. But to be honest, I don’t even know how many I get here, because thankfully, it’s only tallied per post rather than per person/account
i’ve said this before but because there’s a small community vibe across lemmy and kbin it’s much easier to be heard and seen. a lot of people are interested in building communities here which drives engagement way up.
Something important to realize is, upvotes attributed to a profile was once designed to place profiles on a trust scale. A person with more upvotes in general would simply, and naturally, be more listened and trust than a person with low or even negative upvotes.
The problem is our brain can easily fall in the trap which has been used by marketing for decades now : the reward circuit.
Thus people prone to make a lot of money abused that, and even raised the problem to an other level with bots and competition. They did so because it creates addiction. And what addiction does create ? Spending money. So you really don’t want profile accumulated upvotes on Lemmy.
Personally it depends. Back in reddit, my quippy remarks/attempts to be funny seem to get a decent upvote rate, but for more serious comments/questions/discussions, lemmy definitely has more interaction
Uh… I was one of the people with a bot army of novelty accounts that had super fucked up names lol
I evolved from karma whoring into whatever the fuck this is called. Accounts like VaginalPimpleFetish would just show up and say nice things to random people until it got banned.
The snippy comments were the worst, sometimes even completely off of normal comments too like a snippy response to “Oh my God, I love high dives too! They are somewhat more rare these days, but a lake around here still has a few jump platforms. The only other one I’ve been to was in a swim complex in Germany”
It’s actually not that different for me because I knew how to get points even in a huge thread; but I don’t want upvotes, I just want to talk and also don’t want a question to be downvoted and buried without being answered.
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