That’s right I upvote every post I can! Its nice to be here and I hope this place keeps growing like it is and takes the place of reddit. Have a great day!
There’s really no reason to downvote in the kind of environment that Lemmy has created! Everyone is respectful and kind and every post is so wholesome!
Voting is used differently here than it is on Reddit. Here we have no useless karma reputation collecting. So voting serves the sole purpose of sorting posts/comments by relevance. I used the downvote on Reddit very rarely but used to upvote frequently what i liked. Here, i would vote less but use downvotes more.
Upvoted your comment because of the information that followed-up. 🙂On reddit I don’t downvote users unless someone is purposely saying something hateful, but I downvote all the ads. It doesn’t do much, but it does something and is a little cathartic.
I actually disagree. I think downvotes are very useful for when someone posts the wrong kind of content to a niche community without it necessarily breaking the rules. a good example would be reddit’s r/bonehurtingjuice. a core element of a bhj is that the comic is unedited except for the text, so if someone posts a comic with an edited last panel that shows an extra character, it would make sense to downvote that post to indicate that it doesn’t fit the sub well, even if the resulting comic was still funny/good.
idk maybe that’s toxic, but I think it’s a better solution than outright deleting content like that when the content might still have value
Hahaha… I’m really glad that so many instances are blocking LemmyGrad.ml because those guys are major-league assholes. :)
*edit: For those of you who don’t know what LemmyGrad is - it’s tankies (they hate being called that, but that’s the term for them)… hard-line communists who belittle anyone who isn’t cool with mass-murder.
tankies (they hate being called that
They literally have a tank in their logo! I always love some irony.
The funny thing is - they pretend to “own” it… but they don’t. They’re VERY sensitive about being called tankies.
All the comments ive seen have been really positive or neutral I haven’t even seen trolling on here yet which is so refreshing and strange cause im so use to there being so many trolls/hate comments its honestly been such a great experience
lemmy.one disables downvotes. While I do sorely miss them; it also helps me a lot.
No longer do I have to do a deep “which shade of grey is this post?” dive. I ask myself “does this break a rule of my local instance?” then Report it if it does.
Lollll shit, I want to be able to downvote things
Too bad. Welcome to lemmy; where downvotes don’t always mean anything.
