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What are your criteria for upvoting/downvoting? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hate that I always compare Lemmy to Reddit, but Reddit used to have (not sure if they still do) guidelines called "Reddiquette" that included guidelines about upvoting and downvoting. I don't remember the specifics (and sending too much of my browser traffic to Reddit makes me feel dirty) but one of the guidelines was not to upvote/downvote on the basis of agreement/disagreement with the content.

On Lemmy, I'm honestly a bit lax about upvoting and downvoting at all. (I'm trying to be better about it.) Buy when I do upvote/downvote, I try to do so on the basis of whether the comment/post "adds to" or "subtracts from" the community or conversation. I can disagree with one comment's take on some subject but still upvote them if they've given me a more nuanced perspective on the issue. If they're just parrotting well-known talking points and not being thoughtful with their posts, I may downvote them evren if I agree with their ultimate stance.

I'm just mostly wondering how folks on Lemmy think about upvotes/downvotes and what implications that has for the content here.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

conservative political get the downdoot.

That's shitty imo. I'm on the left but there's plenty of conservative politics that aren't extreme or worthy of burying.

My old coworker was conservative and we had some amazing conversations about politics and culture even though we usually didn't budge much on our positions. He was my favorite person to talk to about it because he brought in "the other side" that I wasn't otherwise exposed to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Conservative like slow to change or conservative in the modern political sense which just means trying to undo any progress on personal rights?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To the guy I replied to, they're apparently one in the same. But I'm definitely referring to the former. Sometimes it's nice to have someone telling you to pump the brakes when you're cruising on an idea ya know?

Liberals (me included) tend to rely on momentum and sometimes we overshoot. The world needs all kinds of people - even if I disagree with most conservative viewpoints.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I tend to avoid calling slow to change conservative because people and parties who self identify as conservative have been promoting regression on social issues, removing rights, xenophobia, racism, and sexism. They spoiled the term!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Those conversations happen so rarely that it's not worth even considering that as a possibility until a reply or two has shown that they're not going to stonewall the conversation.

In person things are one way, but on the anonymous Internet (especially lemmy and reddit) it's people who are 100% not going to adjust their actively garbage views on things and thus deserve to be treated as the dickheads they too often are

If they don't like being pre judged based on their political beliefs they should rethink why people have an inherant dislike of them, and maybe change. Or learn to deal with the consequences of having dogshit opinions