😂

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

Oh wow, i upvote a lot

oh well, it seems i vote a ton in comparison

I give away positivity

Holy beans that's a lot of upvotes

I've definitely down voted some AI slop but damn do I look like a ray of sunshine

People are much more likely to write a complaint letter than a praising one. Same as it ever was but internet version.

I worked for a company that had a post karma system before reddit ever existed. It was no different then. No matter how much we said that the downvote button is not a dislike button, it changed nothing.

Hadn't seen this before.

Do these indicate up / down votes that I've given to other people? Or that other people have given to me?

i'm a grumpy man on the internet sometimes but damn i love upvoting shit. I display lemmiquette

Guess I'm doing okay!

I'm a bit of a cynic, but I do enjoy hearing out all your wild takes and unpopular opinions lol

Context: This is the number of votes someone gave, not the number someone got from others.

And I like that.

i downvote any ai slop that crosses my feed

Sticking my neck out a bit to share my general views and habits on voting to maybe add some other things to consider.

My general mindset is that each community sets rules on posts and comments, and that ideally only appropriate things should then be posted. So I typically only think to upvote stuff when there's an even greater than normal amount of effort or thought put into something, or to counteract dogpile downvotes to an appropriate post/comment.

Say I'm browsing a motorcycle community and one user posts a meme about bikes, and someone else poses a story about learning to ride; if my preference is for text posts instead of images I could just upvote the story post and not the meme, but both posts are related to the community and belong there. I could upvote both (and by extension all posts) but then what's the difference if everything is +1 or +0? If memes are disallowed, I can downvote and report the post to push it down to hopefully keep others from having to see it or encourage them to post their own.

I will also downvote nearly 100% of extremely low-effort pointless comments like "THIS", "lol", URL shortened or amp/tracking including links without context etc. A post in another language but marked as English I will also downvote, foreign language communities/instances I just block. I block most meme and shitpost style communities so I'm not looking to vote police what other people enjoy, but doing this stuff in science/news/hobby/etc. communities is inappropriate.

So that's generally how I behave on Lemmy (and previously on Reddit) - I'm generally more "on the lookout" for bad content, and not looking to boost things that belong here. I don't rely on voting to maintain my feed, my block lists are also enormous.

A more semi-recent phenomenon is accounts spam posting a bunch of (relevant) links and then self-deleting - I can't block that account to hide their posts, but as I'm scrolling through my feed I will downvote every single post they made regardless of its quality etc. I'm not going to rehash arguments about whether their behavior is acceptable or not ("they are posting relevant stuff, who cares if they're acting in bad faith!") but since there's generally 2-3 of those accounts per day spam posting junk that's a lot of downvotes from me to a lot of different communities including some I'm not subscribed to. I'm not going to bother reporting every single post, and until there's a method to easily directly report a user I'm not going to bother trying that anymore.

Just wanted to put that out there that there might be other legitimate users that have wildly disproportionate voting numbers and that it might not be malicious or careless in nature. I don't know if Lemmy ignores them like Reddit (supposedly?) does, but I've never mass voted from a user's history. It's only from comments and posts that were presented to me during my normal browsing.

What is that... a 10:1 ratio for the comments and nearly 15:1 for the posts? (I suck at math)

My upvote to downvote is 10:1 for both posts and comments. Cool tool!

This is the upvotes/downvotes they did on other people’s stuff, or others did on their stuff?

I love this website wth.

I tend to downvote hateful content and disinformation. So is it "hatorade" to downvote hateful content and straight up lies?

Though more often I reply back to tell people to tell them to try not to be so hateful and then I get downvoted. I cry myself to sleep every night when that happens :P

While you're judging people, someone else may be judging you. If you're motivated by upvotes maybe consider going to reddit?

My ratio is much better than on Reddit. Have I changed or better community? Maybe both

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.

List of votes for humanspiral@lemmy.ca:

• Total post upvotes: 6445
• Total post downvotes: 99
• Total comment upvotes: 8436
• Total comment downvotes: 984

I guess I'm not that grumpy.

Where do I find this?

I can't even figure out how to comment on this stupidity.

Personally I factor this in with bans on my communities. I very rarely ban, but I do if I notice people like this, who I dub "downvote trolls". They don't participate (or when they do it's negatively), the just downvote constantly.

Now I'm fine with downvotes, I downvote, I think it's healthy to say "I don't like this content". However if all you do is downvote (especially in a specific community) then I view a ban as a win win. We don't have to deal with your negativity and obviously you don't enjoy being here anyway from your voting patterns, so everyone wins.

For my communities I have a pretty healthy ratio. If you downvote 80% of the content, you're on my radar. I won't ban you on that data alone, but seriously 4 out of 5 votes on the community are on average down then why are you there?

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)_/¯

Probably Spez trying to down vote everything here to make Reddit look better lmao

Ah yes. Penis measuring. But instead of measuring penises we're measuring something even more arbitrary.