https://feddit.org/post/13994826/7165181
Everything I downvoted was because I genuinely do not think it’s good. Like meat is not going to cure cancer.
I actually really like eating meat I just try to life a life that gives others room to enjoy this earth too without mutually destroying it.
Please tell me how I am the asshole :)
If it is all misinformation and I want to reduce its visibility, why does volume of down votes matter?
I mean the whole idea of ‘down voting too much’ is that the down votes, which are basically instant after reading a post or comment, are done in a short period of time. If someone takes a few minutes to browse a community to see if maybe a couple of the terrible posts are outliers and vote as they go, is that really any different than down voting them when they are noticed coming through a feed organically?
Note that nobody cares about the frequency of up votes.
You could block it. That would reduce your visibility to it completely.
If you think it’s all misinformation but you don’t block the community (or even post your correct information), at some point you are just wasting your time.
People don’t scroll more than 1 hour a feed. That mean there is no point of downvoting a 9 hours old post that did not reach any top or active posts
If there is no point because it won’t be seen then there would be no negative impact from the downvotes, and punishing someone for downvoting ‘old’ misinformation would be silly.
I downvote misinformation because if someone comes across the community later they are going to see those old posts too. Same reason for downvoting a 5 minute old post as it would for a 5 day old post, misinformation is misinformation.
People don’t go directly in a community. They only interact if they find posts in the all feed and interact with individual posts
If you believe that, then why is it a problem?
spam is spam
How is a vote spam?
Why isn’t upvoting spam? I have upvoted 10 times as many comments as downvoted, and hundreds of times as many upvotes for posts as comments. Is that spam?
Do words mean anything anymore?
If the votes on the internet don’t matter - then the downvote brigade shouldn’t care they are excluded
If the votes on the internet do matter - then the downvote brigade is being acknowledged that they don’t like this, and are being given their free time back when they are uninvited from the community.
Upvoting and downvoting ton of posts in a single community in short period of time is spam .
Why does the frequency matter?
Is it a ratio to the number of posts?
If I come across a sub with a lot of posts but little engagement should I feel bad for up voting a bunch of them so whoever stumbles across the community next knows someone liked the content?
What if they have 6 posts in the main feed? Should I only up vote one of them to avoid spamming? Do I need to pay more attention to the community and not the post itself to avoid being an upvote spammer?
Should I only upvote a limited number of comments per post or per community?
The whole spam argument makes zero fucking sense outside of multiple people intentionally brigading niche subs, which is bad. An individual voting how they want is completely different from brigading.