I was wondering how users tend to judge what to upvote, what do downvote, and what not to vote on.
I made this comment which got me wondering what others think and do
Personally I upvote almost everything. I see upvote as “this is a good Lemmy post/comment” and downvote as “this is a bad Lemmy post/comment”. Most of what I see is good. Bad things are things such as misinformation, bad faith stuff / trolling, people being mean/annoying, bad (in my opinion) takes, people being wrong/stupid about stuff, irrelevant things, etc. When I do not vote it’s for one of 3 reasons: either I don’t understand what it is saying, it makes a reference I don’t get, or I can’t determine whether it’s good or bad (usually because it’s unclear).
If I can look at a comment and perceive it as helpful, funny or overall a positive addition to the discussion at hand, then I will like/upvote it.
Being said the inverse is not true. If a comment is negative or takes away from the conversation at hand, I will likely ignore it or leave a comment in response to the comment/post
I very rarely will downvote a comment or post, due to a combination of the fact that I have the system disabled completely on my end, so I don’t even have a button or the ability to see it. and I find down-voting with how it’s implemented on Lemmy counter-productive to a healthy ecosystem. I had the same issue with Reddit when I was on that platform as well.