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i started visiting reddit back around 2009 when places like digg and fark kept linking over there. i liked it because it had a design that the average person wouldn't like - the old design. they sorted comments in a new way that i liked. it's been a slow boil, but look at the reddit monstrosity now. the redesign is puke-inducing, and there really isn't any point in the vote sorting any more because people don't upvote for visibility any more insomuch as just use it as like/dislike. there isn't even any benefit in trying to point that out any more either, because today's reddit users just don't understand that approach to votes - and it really, really sucks.
Hmmm, perhaps people should start linking threads from here on reddit....
Believe it or not: straight to jail.
Heh. Don't do that from an account that you like or has a lot of karma.
Reddit admins are a bunch of shit eating peckerwoods now.
you can try
I want to upvote this because I like it, but now I'm conflicted because I don't want to inadvertently abuse the upvote mechanism.
yo - upvote it if you think it's worth it for other people to see it, whether you agree with it or not. it might spark a debate. it might sway opinion. but either way, voting for visibility is the best thing to do on a SMALL forum like this. Appreciate lemmy while it's still small!!!
AND fwiw - your upvotes should probably not be monitored. that would just be a huge dick move (sorry, it took me a sec).
Im not going to upvote something if I don't agree with it. I understand the power of voting, it increases or decreases visibility. But I am not going to willingly increase the visibility of something I don't agree with.
Considering e.g. a thoughtful, insightful, well-researched post with a conclusion we completely disagree with and feel is likely to lead to negative outcomes - but is still a perspective that should be understood if we want to be well rounded:
Binary up/downvotes have a really hard time of capturing what we want to see reflected as our assessment.
Edit: blessed be thy highly-voted child comment
As someone from the U.S., it seems like that concept has practically disappeared from the country. The nuances of civil debate, including the acknowledgement of differing opinions as valid, don't exist in most of our popular media (both traditional and social.) We've been conditioned to react to things immediately and intensely using our emotions instead. There has been a slide toward this state for decades, but it's come to the point where a lot of people genuinely struggle with separating "thing they personally disagree with/don't like" from "thing that shouldn't be said/heard/shared."
(Not saying that's the case with OP, just that it's definitely a thing that's been going on.)
that's exactly the ideal! i know it feels weird these days to upvote something you don't like, but it isn't about what you like. it's about what you're showing approval for to the next person.
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