this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Everytime I loomed at my most upvoted comments/submissions on reddit, it would just be populist low effort crap that I wrote.
The meaningful insightful comments that I wrote barely got more than a handful of votes.
The voting system really isn't that indicative of anything in my opinion, other than how willing we are to lower ourselves to pander to the lowest common denominator.
I absolutely agree ... have an upvote!
Snark aside, I do agree, but my time on the microblogging side of the fediverse has habituated me to using "like"/"upvote" as just a nice pleasant gesture to the author of acknowledgement and appreciation. Of course there aren't any algorithms on the fediverse (yet?), so a "like" can only be a gesture, and it's actually wonderful.
So I do the same here. If I really think something is problematic, I frown in concern with a downvote. Thinking of it as human gestures to actual people is actually a nice way to interact on social media IMO.
And while pandering will happen, I, as a lurker/reader don't always want to highest voted comment and often sort by new and old to see other comments. So it really can be about what habits and mentalities we bring to this ... a readjustment of which being something the fediverse has to offer.
Complete agreement, it feels like I'm awakening old voting habits from a nicer internet.