Up and down votes are intended as indicators of quality that people abuse as markers of taste. If you downvote because the post/comment is unhelpful/useless/etc. that's just voting as intended. If you are about to downvote because something is hateful, just report it to the mods instead. If you use certain clients, like Voyager, you will also see cumulative totals for your personal votes on users, which can be a great way to spot people you shouldn't interact with, and probably just block. If you can't tell the difference between people who are willfully nasty vs ignorant, maybe focus on learning to tell that rather than participate too much.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Yes its stupid because nobody uses them correctly. Its turned into a disagree button instead of "this doesnt belong here or add to the conversation" button.
You're supposed to downvote. If something is off topic especially, but also if something is toxic or against the rules.
If there was a community where the joke was "you can only reply PANTS" and then someone started to comment about the downfall of capitalism, you downvote that shit into oblivion even if you agree with it out of context.
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I don't care enough to upvote or downvote anything. Maybe that's not the right way to do it, idc.
Mad you got told off in womensstuff?
So mad that he DMed me to make sure that our mods apply the rules equally. He was very concerned about our community turning into an echo chamber.
Oh damn. "Echo chamber" is usually the last cry of someone without an argument.
I goofed with the comment, I apologized to who I could. I would have added an apology but I can't. So either way, sorry again.
Mad?. Not at all. I actually apologized to who I could. I would have added an apology on the thread but I can't.
You sure as hell seemed concerned about us for someone who isn't upset.
I mean I'm mostly sorry for breaking the rules which is why I apologized, I goofed, human error gets us all from time to time. That circumstance totally makes sense and I've agreed time and time again that rule breaking deserves downvotes in this thread alone. Honestly I was thinking about other experiences I've had, particularly with some very verbally rude individuals.
I downvote comments if they are factually wrong, if they are mean or derogatory or if they are needlessly critical of another commenter. I personally don't care if I get downvoted or even upvoted, I'm just here to speak my mind, hear others opinions, rant or vent or sometimes engage in a pleasant text conversation with a stranger.
Ditto.
Nope. Fuck em.
What happens when em gets reversed for ya?
All of you disappear when I close the app. This isn't my life. Do what you want.
Oh brother, this guy stinks
I don't think so, but to each their own.
I just down vote when I see low quality content or irrelevant or poorly supported arguments. I have upvoted takes I disagree with and then commented about why I disagree. It's not supposed to be a disagree button, it's supposed to be a "move this down in the feed" button.
why the hell do you care about any of this?
maybe the better strategy is to not care about what internet strangers think about you?
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I go and upvote things I want to see more of.
Subjectively, I do not see a big diversity of opinions on Lemmy. Everyone seems to love Linux and communism and hate Windows and western politics.
Haven't been here for that long though so maybe I'm missing out on some communities.
I see a number of different opinions and cultures, which is why I chose my instance. .Today doesn't block, so I can pick what I want to see and browse by subscribed.
Scrolling the All feed on .world tends to be more of an echo chamber than selecting about a hundred individual communities to check regularly.
There are a lot of communities with more diversity once you dig around long enough. It's worth it to go through the communities page and sort in different ways to see if anything catches your interest!
I am also really appreciative of users who link relevant communities in the comments!! I've found several comms that way.
Yeah that's a pretty accurate synopsis of the major trends. Different subs break away from this. If you're coming from reddit then it's was generally left leaning but was just bigger so politics was easy to escape.
I've been here 2-3 years and have up or down voted like 5 times. I just don't care about it and don't look at the numbers. Seems to work
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