Waking up every day and drinking that Hatorade.

If you don’t like anything on the the platform, why stick around?

      • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        Maybe, it’s not clear:

        1. What you see in the image are the upvotes and downvotes I gave, not the ones I received.
        2. I’m on a Lemmy instance that does not have downvotes enabled at all. I can’t even downvote anything and if others click the downvote button on my posts/comments, nothing happens at all as far as I know. Maybe, their app shows that it worked, but I don’t think, anything happens.
        • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          if others click the downvote button on my posts/comments, nothing happens at all as far as I know.

          I think it shares the downvotes within that instance (possibly with other instances that allow downvoting) so anyone else viewing the post from the same instance as the user who downvoted will still see it and their browser will use that when sorting the posts.

  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Me:
    Total post upvotes: 3591
    Total post downvotes: 308
    Total comment upvotes: 15627
    Total comment downvotes: 2862

    I seem to upvote posts about 10 times as much as I downvote them, but comments only about 5 times as much. I need to get upvoting more comments.

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    26·
    3 days ago

    Sometimes I miss old forums where content was brought back up by simply posting within the topic (though that lead to the annoying and incessant “bump? bump? bump?” posts on threads people wouldn’t let die, i guess).

    Post voting is understandable as an alternative but it just leads to so much vanity as a result. Sites like this and reddit have so many dorks that are like “my fake internet points… how could you”. If it matters that much to you just shitpost all the time and you’ll get those numbers up

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      3 days ago

      question about something specific (3w ago)

      nvm figured it out (3w ago)

      what was the solution? Im having the same issue (5m ago)

      [MOD] necroing resolved topics is against the TOS. Read the rules before posting. Banned 4 lyf sunnnnn (1m ago)

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Sometimes I miss old forums where content was brought back up by simply posting within the topic

      That’s how forums on Steam work and it makes them almost useless. The only posts you see are the rage bait from people farming Steam points from ‘Clown’ awards. Any meaningful post doesn’t get the same engagement as people trying to ‘slam the trolls into submission’ (FFS, how do people still not know you don’t feed the trolls?) so it gets pushed under all the bullshit.

      Lemmy’s system is good because there is no account wide total, so it really doesn’t matter if one of your posts gets a lot of upvotes and another gets a lot of downvotes, it just means one was good and other wasn’t.

      … And then you get people who really want some kind of account wide total for some reason so they go to websites that total up the number of times a user has given upvotes and downvotes…

    • FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Me too, it’s definitely had a fundamental impact on how people interact with each other online. But also, less page long flamewars is the silver lining I suppose lol

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
    778·
    3 days ago

    [email protected]?

    I have no idea who that is - your alt?

    Downvoting is valid. You saying it equals hate says more about you than about the downvoters.

    edit: hm, apparently this is about the user doing the downvoting, not being downvoted? Still, this is badly anonymized, and that’s my main point.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
      52·
      3 days ago

      My instance of choice decided to unilaterally and without any warning whatsoever disable downvotes. Just to “try it out”.

      I’m still pissed about it to this day.

      I mean that google removes any kind of downvotes is one stupid thing, but that people think this makes content “better” is crazy to me.

      Now I do understand that in small communities the weight of a super negative account can be quite an issue… But is removing completely any negative feedback the solution ? Really, it’s all we got ?

      Also the simple fact that a lot of this community is from Reddit, IMO it’s not okay to disable a feature like that without even voting on it.

      So if you think disabling negative feedback fixes an issue, you have the burden to prove or at least explain the reasoning.

      I do think it didn’t make YouTube any less of a cesspool to disable downvotes on it…

      Edit : Also while votes are not supposed to replace moderation, they certainly help limiting the reach of spammers. Like if the mods are asleep at least the community can bury the post in the meantime. But no, they just disabled downvotes and made a post about the change the same day. Wtf.

        • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          9·
          3 days ago

          Yeah thats what I was going to say too. There’s little keeping you on any specific instance. You don’t have “karma totals” like on reddit.

          • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I’d give to find an instance where votes are already public.

            EDITED TO ADD: I mean, not hidden by the interface. I am already aware that federated votes are accessible via lemvotes.org.

      • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
        56·
        3 days ago

        Personally being on an instance with no down votes I was pretty similar in thinking. Over time though I’ve realized downvotes are just another avenue for anger, there’s no need for them. It removes significant amounts of stress not worrying about it.

        Were here to discuss, chat, and learn new and intriguing things. Up and Down votes don’t matter, block that annoying asshole, tag the contrarian, just worry about yourself and the typical woes of social media subside considerably.

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netEnglish
      262·
      3 days ago

      I have no idea who that is

      I know exactly who this is, even without the username tip-off. Here’s what their record looked like in September:

      I happened across the user when looking into a string of -1’s on brand new posts in a small community. They were all the same person, and that person downvoted 244 times for each upvote.

      This on its own is not normal behavior. Combine it with this user’s comments - which are pretty much completely on brand for the average Lemmy user - and it becomes even more bizarre.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2510·
      3 days ago

      Nothing against downvoting in general, but some people are extremely toxic about it. I don’t get the point.

      Please don’t do a witch hunt - it was censored for a reason. Sorry I didn’t do it thoroughly enough.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        134·
        3 days ago

        Please don’t do a witch hunt - it was censored for a reason. Sorry I didn’t do it thoroughly enough.

        I’m not. But if this post should evolve into one, that’s on you. Do the sensible thing and remove it.

    • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      i concur (approved your p.of.view)
      I like Lemmy(*)s, and like to ↑ good stuff and to ↓ at very bad stuff. Yes, of course, there is so much of both in here. And since we have many communities, it is possible for opposite points of view to float upward. Until we have a better system, let’s use what we have.

  • Anas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    If I had to guess, I also have more downvotes than upvotes, if you exclude my own content, which I’m pretty sure is counted for some reason.

    I don’t really tend to upvote much, I didn’t on Reddit either and I should probably work on that. On the other hand, while I don’t go through profiles to mass downvote, some users are tagged and deserve to be downvoted on sight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯