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The only times I've really been downvoting is if someone is giving out completely incorrect information, like in a support thread or something, and confusing matters. It's not a personal judgement or anything, just trying to keep things clear for the person asking the question.
If I disagree with a comment, well no biggie. Sometimes it's worth discussing like adults and sometimes it's just a subjective opinion. If it's offensive, I'll report it and block the user.
Depends on what kind of "I don't agree". If somebody asks for people's favorite food, I'm not going to dislike all other answers... But if it's a more serious question, and an answer just has a really bad take that I don't agree with, that's getting a dislike.
Sad part of the design is that I need to interact with a post to get it off my feed so if it's an some stupid meme or whatever i just downvote and move on to clear up all the repeats.
The setting is off by default but you turn on hide post after interaction in the settings.
Downvote for bad technical advise, I think the person is a bad actor/bad faith argument, or if the person turns ~~hostile~~ to ad hominem attacks. I try not to downvote if I'm putting the effort into debating someone.
edit: for clarity
I agree with this. If I'm scrolling through a Linux forum and someone is stating something demonstrably incorrect, I don't want someone to stumble on the post and run into difficulties so I always downvote that particular post and upvote the posts with the right answer.
Now, if I disagree with someone that's different.
Like if I'm in a thread about your favourite tv show, I don't downvote someone I disagree with because it's subjective. I might upvote the people I agree with, but it doesn't seem fair to downvote someone's opinion.
But some things are either right or wrong, and your example of bad technical advice is one such thing
Downvotes = disabled on my instance
Haha yep.
And beehaw too. Wonder how many others.
More like get this shit outa here
I think someone else mentioned the same here, but as I've browsed down the opinions, I wonder if it's good for different communities to have their own subculture on what votes mean.
For sure, outsiders dropping by might vote 'counter-culturally' and unhelpfully, but you can get a general sense of understanding in a community.
For r/all-alike stuff I'm sure things are different.
I only downvote hateful stuff or obvious bots and spam. The same as I do on anything with upvotes and downvotes.
Upvoted. Feel bad that i disagree. 😵
I like it to gauge what the general consensus is. Agree or not.
I think of it like a digital facial expression. Upvoting is akin to smiling or conveying some other positive emotion like affirmation or understanding (even if the subject matter is inherently negative). Downvote is the opposite- someone says something irl that makes you frown or grimmace, or you know they're telling you a lie, your expression can convey that without a single word. Here, downvote.
There's no real etiquette - if you feel like you want to give an up or down vote, just do it and don't put too much thought into it.
It's weird how nobody ever goes off on these philosophical treatises about what a downvote is REALLY supposed to be for unless they copped a shit ton of downvotes for their awful takes
To quote the famed philosopher T. Soprano: "Alright, but you gotta get over it."
I don't that's entirely fair or true across the board. I haven't received a ton of downvotes or anything, but realised that I didn't know what to do with the downvote and that some were clearly using downvotes where I don't think I would have.
For my, it was more sympathetic. I was thinking about people who do get downvoted and whether I'm ok with that.
The latter. If it's just disagreement a quick reply is best, and sometimes it gets worked out just fine.