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Has anyone else been trying to break their reddit-era habit of downvoting? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I used to downvote fairly often on Reddit as a sign to disagree or to push down really disgusting bigoted comments. And to be honest, it became a habit to just downvote without replying. However, now that I’m on lemmy and not Reddit I’ve been actively trying to not instantly downvote things and instead move on or take the time to reply. Has anyone else been trying to do this?

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[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really, I've only ever down voted something that I thought really needed to be down voted. There is a reason why the down vote buttons exist but they should really only be used when you have a good reason to use them.

It's funny though, because I have the exact opposite problem, as I up vote pretty much every post I see. While that is better, I understand that it's probably also bad in it's own way.

[–] DundasStation@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it wouldn't hurt to upvote more than what you normally do on Reddit while you're on Lemmy. The community here is smaller and it'll benefit a lot of more people interacted with the site by upvoting.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t know if absolute numbers would really help. Like it doesn’t bother me that I haven’t seen any lemmy posts with 35k score yet.

Just so long as there’s some variation in scores that we can use for sorting content, it works.