How to vote? (lemmy.today)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
 

Okay, say there's a post that says something bad... what do I (or you) do? Do you upvote it because it's like "thank you for pointing this out", or does your upvote mean you support whatever the post says (which is kinda the opposite)?

This is super important and not sure how many people know what they're doing lmao

Edit: Okay. It has been decided. We need more buttons than just Up/Down 🥲

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[–] 3 points 9 months ago

100%. Content sorting is (to my understanding) handled by peer vote rather than any kind of central algorithm on Lemmy by default, so a vote is much less about agreement/disagreement, and much more about doing your part in the process of separating the wheat from the chaff imo.

In my view, even a (non-bot) lurker who only views/votes is still contributing to the community, because they still add another data point for sorting. It’s a collective effort that generates a collective content algorithm, so a person should vote accordingly.

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