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NGL even from back in reddit I only notice the vote score after I clicked on a post or after reading the comments.

I think voting disincentivices discussion, so I don't do it.

If I have an opinion on something I'll leave a comment instead. If I only want to vote but not take the time to comment, then it's clearly not worth interacting with at the moment and I scroll on. Might come back later if I feel like it and remember.

I sort by old comments and by new posts.

No, I disabled that in the settings so I don't see it

Nope, this is the most I've ever thought about it.

I notice it because its obvious in the interface but it does not reduce my clickage. heck if the post is so bad the posters history is real bad then I just block them and that is how I keep my feed tidy. almost never have to do that though but if I want to see bad content because I want to curate my own feed. I don't need others to do it for me.

Pretty much the same. I'll look at the post or headline or whatever and make my assessment of if I want to see more like that. If I see downvotes already there tho, I try to figure out why. Sometimes the post does turn out to be spammier or more controversial or more factually wrong than it first appeared.

I downvote for inaccurate/old/not relevant/misinformation.

However, I also see down votes on the posts themselves to signify for others they disagree with the finding/topic but I myself try to refrain from doing that to still encourage people to keep posting.

I.E. Topics that are not privacy-respecting but still interesting is commonly downvoted, some trivial news sometimes about media, etc.

Honestly, if its an article I dont agree with the findings of, I just move on. No downvotes or up votes.

If I dislike a comment but notice that it has a decent amount of upvotes, I'll reread it in case I've misconstrued what the OP was actually saying.

I prefer this account most of the time as it's on an instance that doesn't allow downvotes. It's eye-opening what kind of comments and content get highly upvoted on Lemmy - it's not all good. In fact, seeing some of the mass amounts of upvotes on sexist type comments is incredibly disheartening. It initially turned me away from Lemmy when I first joined.

Sometimes I do like to hop onto a different account and I utilize downvotes then. Usually try to save downvotes for vile opinions or things that don't contribute to the conversation. It can be a good head's up if a post is worth a curious glance. Hopping into the drama can be fun here and there.

If it's generating discussion, I upvote, regardless of how many votes it has.

If I participate in the discussion, I upvote, regardless of how many votes it has.

If people are participating in the discussion in good faith, I upvote, regardless of how many votes each comment has.

It's the only way to boost engagement in the community, by pushing quality discussions and posts to the top.

Also my instance disabled downvoting so I don't do that.

I do, only to try and suss out if it's a .ml drama reason for downvotes, or, just, like, something normal.

If a post in new is heavily downvoted, I'll check the username. Sometimes it's just Cheese! That lovable rascal, asking stupid questions in the "No Stupid Questions" munis. Sometimes it's one of a handful of other users, drunkposting or similar.

But if I don't recognize the name, I know it's either trolling or drama. Trolling I downvote or report and move on. Drama I wade in and start shitkicking.

I usually glance at it just to see what I'm getting into.

I hide comment scores with Ublock Origin and also leave the sorting on old so sorting isn't a clue. It's a lovely world where only the logic of the argument is of any importance.

Sometimes I'll turn off the filter and good arguments are downvoted to oblivion because they don't instantly disparage ai or whatever. It also happens a lot that someone who is being completely petulant and who is clearly adding nothing to the discussion is upvoted to the stratosphere because the comment is in line with the lemmy hivemind. Quite jarring and clearly indicates the uselessness of scores.

Just to feel the room's temperature, but I always speak my mind regardless (it's Lemmy, if you're not honest here where are you honest?). Unless I'm missing something, the post stands by itself (or not) regardless of votes.

No, I have disabled seeing votes. Don’t care about it all.

Not really. If I like it I upvote it, if I dislike it I downvote it. If it seems interesting I'll click it, if not I won't. And if I got something to say I'll say it.

In my subscribed feed there are three types of posts that are heavily downvoted

• Wrong community, spamming, or stupid takes by the same five people: it's usually visible from the title and I wouldn't click on them anyway but the downvotes draw your attention to the community/user so you know to avoid clicking on the post so they kinda help.
• AI news: I guess people are just tired and mass downvoting them. I also wouldn't click on them cause they're not that interesting so the downvotes don't make a difference.
• Posts with a normal looking title in an appropriate community. Downvotes will make me click on them more to see what went wrong as there's usually an interesting discussion in the comments.

I don't vote/comment much but this shouldn't be affected by other peoples' votes anyway.

The upvote/downvote thing mostly indicates whether a comment or post agrees with the current popular opinion of the social bubble it's found inside. I've said the same thing in different places and see quite different ratios. It's not very useful for analyzing the content itself, it just tells you what the room thinks of it.

nah... didn't care on yt with starts, didn't care on Reddit with arrows, don't really care here either.

up/down votes aren't a good metric.. it's like trusting yelp, except no bribes. people gonna hit whatever and do whatever.

I used to, but I try to do better. Lately, I've had "blind voting" turned on in my app, so I can only see the score after I've voted one way or the other. Basically forces me to read and vote on the submission without being influenced by the current score.

About the same.

It depends a lot on the topic. For topics that are polarizing and those where I know I disagree with the popular sentiment, I'm more lenient with downvotes. But it's always at least a yellow flag to have a lot of downvotes.

I don't really know what's going on in those posts I assume it's some inside thing I don't know about and move on since I only use Piefed and none of the other Fediverse or Matrix or anything at the moment. After my last earnest attempt to help someone here which ended in that person saying they were a cop, idk if they were trolling, but I don't care, don't catfish people that's fucking garbage, I usually just ignore low vote long winded stuff now unless it's something I feel is really genuine.