Do you rarely vote on anything at all?
Do you upvote when something is interesting but rarely downvote? Do you downvote when something isn’t interesting but rarely upvote?
Do you vote to signal agreement or disagreement?
Do you vote to encourage insightful replies regardless whether you agree or not?
I rarely interact with the voting system on sites, aside from the occasional missclick, that is. While I think it can be useful when searching for answers or tutorials, especially on topics you’re not familiar with and can’t judge competence vs BS, I think in more social spaces it leads to both echo chambers and karma farming, and it feeds social media addiction by giving you little validations for every upvote you receive.
I also think it prevents people from having more meaningful interactions. Rather than replying with 'This was insightful", “I disagree because…” or “that was really funny” You just make a number go up or down.
I just upvote things I like that I wanna see again. Although there are very few lemmy front-ends on PC that’ll let me see what posts I upvoted so it don’t really work out too well. So far I’ve only found photon and stability on that is questionable if I don’t go to the upvoted page right away
hello, i am photon dev (i can hear the name mentioned anywhere in the world)
Where are you accessing photon from? if phtn.lemmy.blahaj.zone, that’s on an ancient version, im pretty sure most of the problems are fixed nowadays (you can try phtn.app)
ok that was it. thanks. not sure how that happened