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

Paladin voting, righteous! 😁

I don’t know. I just wing it.

When a meme is funny enough to send to my wife, upvote.

When I see that one dude post his daily game screenshot, downvote.

I am simple man.

I have a up-vote down-vote pattern for when the scores are low. If I disagree with a child comment, I will down-vote the comment and up-vote the parent comment.

Since every comment automatically gets one up-vote, a parent score of 2, and a child score of 0 shows that the parent comment didn’t down-vote the reply comment and they should look elsewhere for who to be mad at.

I tend to upvote any display of anyone’s creative pursuit if I happen to scroll by it. Even if it’s not something I’m into. The marker-on-photo-paper guy whose name escapes me, people’s photographs in any of the photography related communities, any of the ink doodles, hand made stuff, or comics posted by their original creators.

We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.

I don’t downvote (At least not intentionally, but if I fall asleep while holding my there can be some accidental taps). Even if something seems somewhat offensive to me.

On the other hand, I don’t upvote as much as I think I should.

Up: comment adds to conversation or makes me laugh

Down: comment talks about upvotes/downvotes, is hateful, is blatant misinformation, is just a gif, is completely unrelated to the conversation, is a clickbait video with a clickbait thumbnail

No vote: everything else.

Up: I like it or agree
Down: I dislike it or disagree.

upvote: comment is interesting or funny

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

• 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 ignore communities, posts, and comments that have no real thought behind them. This includes those that are just “educated” repetitions of culture-mantras, no matter what “side” or whatever they are on. Unfortunately, this is most of the internet these days.

Because I appreciate thought, I upvote comments that someone activated some brain cells to write. I also upvote those that make me think, teach me something new, or just make me laugh.

I downvote comments that are mean, aggressive, or otherwise demeaning to the person they are replying to - whether that person was me or someone else.

I don’t have strict standards, but generally:

• usually upvote someone who responds to me with something substantial, even if I disagree
• downvote things that are antisocial (self-hate/self-harm, antinatalism, misanthropy)

Sadly if I don’t vote, my app doesn’t consider it read. So I upvote nearly everything.

Upvote: Good comments, or stupid comments that are funny (which are basically good posts anyway)

Downvote: Image posts with words censored, dumb mean jerks, comments that feel like spam