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I'm the same, I follow the rules of only upvoting insightful or interesting replies, and only downvoting rude, angry, and insulty comments.
by AndyNemmity 4y ago
I'm the same, I follow the rules of only upvoting insightful or interesting replies, and only downvoting rude, angry, and insulty comments.
- celdon25 4y agoUpvoting something makes it easier to find a comment again later as you can look through your own history of upvoted comments.
- grzm 4y agoYou can also use the "favorite" link for that purpose as well.
- egfx 4y agoI use upvotes for bookmarks as well. The interesting thing is that these upvoted bookmarks are private unlike favorites.
- frosted-flakes 4y agoI tend to upvote too many things for the upvoted list to work for me, so I'm glad the favourites function exists. If I find a comment useful or insightful, I automatically upvote it without thinking. Maybe I upvote too much; I don't know.
- celdon25 4y agoFavorites are publicly viewable, not everyone may want that.
- grepfru_it 4y agoSometimes English isn’t the poster’s first language and emotion can be interpreted differently. For this reason I never downvote
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoSurely most of us are capable of distinguishing those negativities from the bluntness/imprecision of a non-native speaker, right?
- Mo3 4y ago> Sometimes > never Choose one
- Akronymus 4y agoCould be rewritten as "I never downvote, to avoid the possibility of sometimes misinterpreting the tone of a non native speaker."
- grepfru_it 4y agoEi incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat
- Akronymus 4y agoI am not sure I follow what you mean.
- randomdata 4y ago> downvoting rude, angry, and insulty comments. That seems like a poor idea. Reactions incentivize them to post more of the same, knowing with reasonable confidence that the comment was read. Low value content should not be given the time of day, which will leave those posting low value content to start to wonder if anyone is even seeing it, eventually boring them. Upvote = funny, downvote = informative is the standard approach.
- giancarlostoro 4y agoI would instead suggest to 'flag' comments that are rude, angry and insulting.
- saagarjha 4y agoWhy would anyone want to downvote an informative comment?
- ncmncm 4y agoWe can speculate, but it is observed, albeit not universally.
- randomdata 4y agoWhy would you reward an informative comment with analytics data? To try and encourage more of the same. The opposite of why you would not reward poor content with a "read receipt". Like before, content that sees no data in return will eventually bore those creating it. In the case of someone posting informative content, you don't want the author to get bored.
- Volundr 4y agoBut surely downvotes will discourage informative comments? I'd most certainly be discouraged to find that comment I worked hard on to provide context in an area I'm an expert grey and dead. Thank goodness this is not actually how most people use up/downvotes.