upvote: comment is interesting or funny

downvote: user is being rude (try not to downvote people I disagree with)

Upvote:

• Something I like
• Something I agree with
• Something funny
• A great point for an opposing view

Neutral:

• Something I don’t care about
• Something I agree with, but is incoherent/ confusing
• Things I disagree with, but is politely presented and has decent arguments

Downvote:

• Something I think is trolling/Bigotry
• Agendaposting
• Something I agree with, but has terrible argument or presented in an offensive way
• Something I disagree with, and is incoherent/confusing/presented in an offensive way
• If the post/comment is so confusing I don’t even know which side they are arguing for
• Wildly Offtopic for the thread/comunity

Incorrect spelling of words. *behavior, not behavi our. You are pronouncing the word correctly but spelling it wrong. ‘Our’ is not the same word as ‘or.’

inciting violence, no matter against whom (people seem to forget this is a straight up crime, sometimes a felony)

Just gonna repeat what I said about this in another thread about this:

It is illegal only if it is reasonably going to trigger or calls for any immediate lawlessness. Like straight up trying to get a bunch of people together to knock-over a convenience store or actually organizing a murder.

Saying “man, I wish this evil son of a bitch took a round in the face” is not such a time.

Upvote if I think it’s high effort, no-vote for most, downvote if wrong or it’s misleading.

I only upvote if something is actually worth upvoting, which basically depends on my mood. I rarely upvote.
I downvote low-effort, some reposts, posting things on comms where they don’t really fit (or they are forcing it to fit, like posting social media screenshots in any of the many memes comms), opinion pieces posted as news, misinformation/propaganda about my country, clickbait… I downvote a lot.
The rest I just read or check and keep moving, I don’t believe in upvoting everything just to make comms feel alive.

Downvotes for spammers, spreading misinformation disinformation and propaganda, know it all comments which starts with" by the way or actually,etc" in a condescending manner. Also for people targeting one person specifically and trying to to make a offensive sarcastic joke in a way so they don’t get banned.

Upvote stuff I like such as positive news, shitposts, windows bad and Linux good posts.

Downvote rarely, only if the post is factually wrong or misleading and I’ve spent the time to confirm. “Person shreds other person” is a shit headline and unless he hit a 10 point debate combo with a knockout I’d Downvote.

• Upvote - good point/interesting/funny/agree/posts I like to see
• Downvote - strongly disagree/inappropriate/poor comment/posts I don’t like to see

I downvote if it looks like they are posting in bad faith. I’ll upvote some comments that I disagree with if the poster was trying to contribute to the conversation – I usually do that to offset the fact that they’ve been downvoted a bunch already.

Many of the communities I’m in are fairly small, so I upvote almost every comment that I read. I figure it lets someone know that someone else read what they wrote, and I think that’s what a lot of us are here for.

Upvote: I’d like to see/read more of this. Downvote: I’d like to see/read less of this.

Up:

• interesting posts that are on-topic for the muni

• posts in any community that have spawned interesting comments

• comments that are cogent or thoughtful replies

• comments that are funny jokes

• comments that explore a perspective I’ve never seen before

down:

• complaining about downvotes

• posts that are rule-breaking or off-topic for the community

• posts or comments with slurs, including misogynistic slurs

• misinformation, disinformation, and unfunny trolling

• advocacy for antisocial or unethical behavior (NB: illegal is isn’t disqualifying)

• incivility, over-the-top hostility, and petty bickering

• rhetorical sins like sealioning, the gish gallop, begging the question, and so on

• posts linking to videos that don’t provide a text summary

downvote and report:

• hate speech

• wishing harm or self-harm

• spam

To me upvote/downvote means approval/disapproval, not necesarily agree/disagree. So I’ve upvoted different posts and comments with different points of view if they are argumented well for and polite.

I do not vote when I skimm the post/comment.

That is basically it.

Vibe. That’s it. I just vibe vote.

I don’t know. I just wing it.