My experience

A few hours ago, I commented on a post about a nuclear power plant in Georgia on lemmy.ml:

Why expensive nuclear reactors instead of cheaper renewables?

What happened? 8 likes, 11 dislikes

I am totally honest with you now: This makes me sad, because it’s the same behavior that I experienced on Reddit and why I deleted my account there. Different oppinion => Downvote!!! Now my comment has a “-3” score and I could think about deleting it. I won’t do it, but others would maybe do it. IMO, that’s how we create echo chambers.

I want to post what I like to (not what the 60-vs-40-majority of the platform likes me to post)…

So let me ask you these question:

  • When do you upvote 👍?
  • When do you downvote 👎?
  • When do you do neither 👍👎?

My answers:

When do you upvote? 👍

  • same opinion as mine
  • a post that I think should get more attention

When do you downvote? 👎

  • discrimination
  • trolls
  • irrationality, ignoring facts

When do you do neither? 👍👎

  • different opinion => I write a comment instead
  • posts I classify as “not interesting”
  • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For me I:

    👍 anything positive-sum

    • could be anything from useful tips to strangers encouraging/complimenting each other

    👎 anything zero-sum

    • racism, sexism, anything that incites hate/violence or is joyful for oneself at the cost of others

    and neither for anything that is ambiguously between P-S/Z-S, or requires further knowledge/skill/context in order to correctly parse

    • like any topics that requires advanced physics I abstain because I wouldn’t know left from right so it wouldn’t make sense for me to upvote or downvote