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I have a up-vote down-vote pattern for when the scores are low. If I disagree with a child comment, I will down-vote the comment and up-vote the parent comment.
Since every comment automatically gets one up-vote, a parent score of 2, and a child score of 0 shows that the parent comment didn't down-vote the reply comment and they should look elsewhere for who to be mad at.
I tend to upvote any display of anyone's creative pursuit if I happen to scroll by it. Even if it's not something I'm into. The marker-on-photo-paper guy whose name escapes me, people's photographs in any of the photography related communities, any of the ink doodles, hand made stuff, or comics posted by their original creators.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.
It all depends on the person:
Posts or comments from women: downvote about every second one, randomly.
Posts or comments from black people: downvote every single one, thoroughly, with extra pressure on the button.
Posts or comments from stupid people: sometimes downvote, sometimes upvote, according to my mood swings. Sometimes create an additional lemmy account in order to have a second downvote.
/s
~~I see the point you are making, or I am interpreting too much into it, but I don't think discussion about subjective, highly variable day-to-day things is useless. Sure, every human is influenced by a lot of factors, but in my opinion there is still something to learn from this. I know I did in less than an hour already.~~
I am an idiot.
Neglectful / high threshold. A post or comment has to be extremely one way or the other for me to click one of those arrows, and as for boosts, basically forget about it, even if they are the right thing for stellar content. I would like to give out more (of all kinds), but never seem to be able to bring myself to do it.
I think seeing a ratio that already looks right might play into it a bit (since I'm on an instance that shows both up and down), but there are plenty of 0/0s that don't get anything from me either.
Getting into the further "why" is deep existential, psychological stuff that's probably well beyond the fluff level of an internet points discussion, and I might not even be able to begin to examine that without the help of a qualified therapist or something.
I have only one strict rule: I see the Moomin comic, I upvote it.
Upvote:
Downvote:
Downvotes : genocide and occupation apologist Upvotes : posts or comment i find interesting No votes : Things i disagree with but it's opinion based
Upvote: any insightful contribution even if I don’t agree with it.
Downvote: Remove this. Don’t show it to others. Was not worth my time to read this content because it contains false information, trolling, etc.
I’d like to encourage others not to use down votes for simple disagreement. Lemmy needs participation from thinking people.
Downvote:
I'm pretty similar. I'm probably more generous with upvotes. I'll also downvote:
I have to force myself not to downvote anything with anime. I have a visceral dislike for anime, probably a result of the shitty afternoon TV cartoon lineup in the 70s.
I block a LOT of accounts. Anything that looks like ragebait or just arguing in bad faith.
Downvoting anime is always morally correct.
[I am being hyperbolic here, relax before calling out my hypocrisy]
Upvote is mostly if I want better visibility for the post and that is the intended feature even if you do not agree. Sometimes I upvote comments that I like, because comments are not really about that and more about opinion. I do not have downwote option on my instance, nor can I see the down votes which is fine for me.
I see you are a bigger person than me (I genuinely mean that, because this can be seen as sarcasm)
Pretty much same as you listed, actually, but with a few additions:
Upvote:
No-Vote:
/all)Downvote:
Ohh, marking replies as read is something I will implement. Never thought about that before.