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PaperclipPerfector  8mo ago (text post)   2421 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 1, 2023

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Can some explain upvotes and downvotes? This might seem like a silly question but I saw someone mention in QOC don’t use downvotes because you disagree.

But what I want to discuss is I never vote. I read and scroll. Stopping to vote just seems like a waste of time to me. Is my behavior weird and everyone else reads a comment and then decides if it’s good or bad?

I assume the voting system here is better than on Reddit and more people vote positively if it’s a good thought versus I don’t like this opinion. But I’m still completely clueless on who the people are who take the time to vote.

I could move this to main board if there is some culturally thing with voting versus fun.

Comments I find boring I scroll past and don’t vote. I upvote/downvote based off a mixture of information/entertainment I get from a comment and how much I agree with it. So a mediocre comment I agree with probably gets an upvote, but a really poorly argued comment, even if I agree with the conclusion, gets a downvote. I’m more restrained about downvotes though, I only downvote if I think someone is very wrong or making really bad arguments.

I don’t think there’s really right/wrong way to downvote as long as you’re not trolling though. People can have lots of different systems of deciding what deserves upvotes/downvotes, but as long as everyone is roughly aligned that upvotes are good and downvotes are bad, the good stuff will always get a lot of upvotes and the bad stuff will always get a lot of downvotes.

This is where I disagree since I believe there is a wrong way to vote and basically all of Reddit is an example of the wrong way to vote. Reddits voting system strongly pushes to censorship and groupthink.

The version of the voting system here or the people here seems to remove that issue.

I think the people here are just a bit less partisan is all.

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