Just sayin’
Proving your point by downvoting because this is not an unpopular opinion.
Interestingly, that’s what someone said in the last post that claimed that people are doing it wrong. So, now we have two opposing claims, both of which are actually popular according to some people. Maybe half the world believes the other half is doing it wrong?
Maybe there is a a marginal belief which is truly unpopular. How about not voting at all? How about an even more obscure method where you never touch the upvote, but only selectively downvote specific posts that deserve to be buried?
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I’m choosing not to vote. That’ll really get the crowd riled up.
On Reddit, I almost never upvoted/downvoted because I felt it didn’t make much of a difference that massive community.
But here on Lemmy, the community is small enough. I feel obligated to upvote as much as I can to help boost the community. Or downvote, on the rare occasion that requires it.
Some people just want to watch the world burn…
🎵 I don’t want to set the world on fire 🎵
Ok, I’ll bite. How would you even know??
From comments I’ve read in other threads some lemmy instances show the number of up and down votes respectively.
but what criteria is being used to judge whether those votes were correct or not?
Each downvote is like a tiny pin pricking my soul.
Your nicely upvoted post is the antithesis of a previous post which was heavily downvoted … and those two posts (and their votes) together shows you are right (as users votes consistently) … Although, this might not be an unpopular opinion … hummm …
…nor would the antithetical post be…?
indeed : if the post is sufficiently unpopular and repugnant to users it will be downvoted … but also if the post is appealing to user but at the same time it becomes popular (so not unpopular) then : well, you lose if you do, you lose if you don’t.
I only use upvote
