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I think about this a lot. Even if a person "only" got 300 views, imagine those 300 people in front of you staring at you.
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Yeah, but what about downvotes?
That's like 15 people walking up to you to say "I liked that, thank you", but then one person comes up to you, calls you a cunt and punches you in the face.
Man, you take down votes really harshly.
Not really, I would say I take them as intended.
I wouldn't downvote something unless it was hateful, bigoted, offensive, bullying or so horribly wrong as to be offensive. [Edit] or spam.
Yeah you might want to re-calibrate there, because you're treating one side of the equation a lot more extremely than the other. If upvote = "I liked that, thank you", then downvote should = "I disliked that, no thanks".
They are naturally imbalanced though (and they're slightly different for posts and comments) - in some sense they are for increasing and decreasing visibility, promoting and demoting i.e.
upvote being "I liked this so much I think more people should see it"
no-vote "I don't care about this, or dislike it - I don't think it should he seem by more people"
downvote then being "I hate this so much I wish to actively stop other people seeing it".
Perhaps an easier way of looking at it, is you go to see a gig, and the band finishes a song - if you like it, you applaud loudly. If you don't like it, you stay silent, or give a half-arsed polite applause. If you hate it, or find it offensive, you actively attempt to "booooooooo" them off the stage.
It may of course just be cultural differences about positivity and negativity.
In the other hand, it may of course just be me, being weird :)
It's a simple, I don't agree with your opinion thing. That's it.
It's not supposesd to be agree/disagree, but thanks to a certain techbro who may or not be a robot, it is.
It was supposed to be "this does/not contribute something relevant to the conversation, and I may or not agree."
Any tech bro had nothing to do with this. It is what the community has decided as a whole that an upvote or a down vote means in the context of a conversation on the internet.v I was on Reddit for about 17 years pretty much since the beginning. And before that I was on dig and it's always how it's been used when it comes to the context of conversations.
I'd still upvote something if it contributed to the conversation/discussion/argument, even if i personally didn't agree with what the person is saying.
If it didn't really contribute anything, I'd leave it blank.
Same. If I'm not into something, I just scroll past it. I usually downvote if I disagree or hate it.
In that case, you either take up votes as “I liked that, thank you” and downvotes as “I didn't like that”; or you take upvotes as "people come up to you to give you oral pleasure", in which case you can take downvotes as "calls you a cunt and punches you in the face".
I think that's a weirder scale than the one I'm using.
Yeah righto, cunt 👊💥
FACE! 💥