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Do you upvote your own posts and comments? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Wit@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Since on most fediverse instances you don't automatically upvote your own comment, do you do it manually? What's considered "proper etiquette"? Because on Reddit your stuff is self-upvoted automatically, while in YT comment sections comments with 1 like sometimes get called out for liking their own comment. Do we have an established standard here yet, and if not what are your thoughts on it?

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[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Taking off that auto-upvote and starting from 0 was - mostly humorously - referred to as "Reddit hard mode" back in the day.

That was at least partially because it's far more likely that someone else chose to downvote rather than the commenter / OP, and that meant the content was tainted with suspicion from the outset.

But, if everyone starts out in hard mode it's not really hard mode any more.

Also, we can see both favourites and reductions (up- and downvotes) here* so it's slightly clearer what's going on even if someone chooses to rate their own content.

ETA: kbin ego mode: favourite your own stuff; kbin hard mode: reduce it.

* kbin.social. Perhaps not so at other Fediverse places.