• @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    Since switching to Lemmy I use my up/downvote in a different way than on reddit. Upvote now means I think the comment/post contributes something valuable while downvote means the comment/post is unnecessarily unfriendly or just not contributing anything constructive.

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      1 year ago

      Typical Reddit voting v Lemmy voting

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      I agree Upvote Upvote
      I disagree, but it contributes to the conversation Downvote Upvote
      Meh Downvote -
      Trolling and bad faith arguments Upvote Downvote
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        41 year ago

        This would be so much nicer place if everyone voted like this. It’s not uncommon to see objectional facts downvoted here and blatant lies upvoted.

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        31 year ago

        This is the way. Maybe this should be shown to everyone who signs up and everyone should be reminded once in a while to keep up this system.

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      That’s what they were originally about on Reddit as well before its gradual decline. “Reddiquette” as they called it.

      Unfortunately it turned into an “I agree” or “I disagree” button.

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        11 year ago

        Yea … I said it above, but I think separating the up and down votes so that they don’t contribute to the same “score” might help. Make the downvote a separate process of basically softly and quickly reporting a post/comment for being out of line.

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      31 year ago

      What I, at least in theory, try to do is upvote everyone I’m replying to even if I’m replying to disagree - because if I’ve replied then by definition it has contributed to the conversation. It gives your reply better visibility as well. It’s really hard to do sometimes though.