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.
FACE! 💥
Yeah righto, cunt 👊💥
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.
Same. If I’m not into something, I just scroll past it. I usually downvote if I disagree or hate it.
It’s a simple, I don’t agree with your opinion thing. That’s it.
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.
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.
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 :)
Not really, I would say I take them as intended.
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”.
That would mean I had to interact with 15 people.
I agree completely. I am in the process of building an app for Lemmy, Bluesky, Mastodon and Tumblr. Getting a single like or comment on the development process keeps me going!!
What technology are you using to build your app? Out of curiosity
I am using Swift/SwiftUI for the iOS and Apple Watch app. :)
I write fiction and post it online. I’m thrilled when one person reads it and comments. It doesn’t even need to be a positive comment, I’m just happy someone read it.
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I’d rather have 20 Lemmy upvotes than 10000 reddit upvotes.
15/8,000,000,000 isn’t that bad.
Clearly, 8,000,000,000 people must disagree with you, as they didnt all agree…
One woman loving me out of four-ish billions feels pretty damn nice, honestly.
So tender feels nice?
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Less exciting if it’s 15 bots
I do too. 700 people might not seem like a lot, but 900 people actually is
I fixed it, so people won’t know how funny that is, lol. No /s
Would be cool if we kept this post to 15 likes but the internet doesn’t have that sort of coordination.
Nobody upvote this comment.
dont tell me what to do 😡
Especially not the Fediverse with everyone having a slightly different vote count due to defederation and some instances having downvotes disabled
I started trying piefed because fedio.io hasn’t been working properly for days, and it doesn’t even let you see the number of up and down votes–just the total after they’re added together. I don’t care for it.
Doesn’t that depend on the “reader”? I mean if there are several already.
If even 1 person smirks because of something I posted then I am happy
i smirked because of you, are happy now? happy of what you’ve accomplished? someone’s life was affected by you and you’re happy
:) yeah
I also smirked, thanks for smirking me
Thank you, Comrade Shartfucker
You make the world a happier place, sharkfucker420.
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sometimes you post just for that one other random guy you see posting memes constantly
Imagine someone going like “Yeah, cool”, then scrolling past you - but IRL.
pretty much like a stranger giving you a thumbs up after you did something weird
Like a fellow metal head giving you a little nod from across the street or something like that? Feels fucking cool honestly.
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I’m a simple man, I just need one like and that makes me happy.
You are at 2 which means 1 like, I don’t want to ruin that for you.
its starting to get a bit overwhelming now.
Funny enough dislikes are exactly this way. -5 feels like 5 people just called me dumb.
Nope, those are bots. :)
I look at the negative votes on my comments and feel sorry for those people
I’d be creeped out if 300 people I didn’t invite were tearing at me. Go away.
If you posted a video where 300 people have access, then you invited them. If you have an event where you want people to look at you in a similar way, then you invited them.
I’m imagine a situation where three hundred people are just showing up in person where I am doing something. I’m not talking g about sharing some record of what I did online. That is how I interpreted that.
I’m always happy if I post something here and just get a few replies, but I’m not sure if that would change if it were Facebook. But I don’t really use Facebook.
Facebook is super toxic though. It’s crazy :(
