Well now I don't know whether to vote this up or down π€
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2024
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Since there is no karma on lemmy it does make sense to downvote when disagreeing because 1. many people will do that anyway without looking at the community, and 2. you don't actually know how unpopular an opinion is until a bunch of people have voted. And maybe low effort posts can be ignored. I agree it would be nice to have a mention in the rules.
This approach makes sense.
I doubt most people would read it anyway. I only ever read community rules when I make a post. Regardless, it would be nice to have (I guess... since I've never posted here and so never read it)
It mostly worked on r/the10thdentist, until it became too popular and reddit adopted their algorithmic recommendations. Only problem was it favored silly unpopular things like "I like wet socks" over actually messed up stuff (which may be a good thing depending on how you look at it.
Nah, I like the conflict as to whether people upvote based on whether they agree, or upvote based on whether they disagree. I'm just waiting for the ability to sort by downvotes and controversial because that's where the fun stuff will be.
I sure wish I could read