Do you ever revise your upvotes for a particular sub-thread/conversant when you get the sense they are either bad-faith or do not have sufficient knowledge to justify their participation or comments?
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Idk, it feels a lot of conversation about difficult to grasp topics are followed by a lot of Dunning-Kruger comments, even here on lemmy. Sometimes it's about related topics that a person know, so their comments seems reasonable, but after a search or a harder look, I stop upvoting or I can even downvote their comment, but sometimes I just ignore if I don't even remember the original conversation.
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Sometimes. I might get halfway through the comments and see that someone has shared something from their post history that paints them in a different light.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Or if they add an edit whining about downvotes
Edit: DOWNVOTES? REALLY? For speaking the objective truth?
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Or if they add an edit whining about downvotes
Edit: DOWNVOTES? REALLY? For speaking the objective truth?
I upvoted this assuming the edit was humor, don't you dare prove me wrong!
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If later text shows that my initial reading was incorrect due to missing context or because I misread their starting point, yeah. For example, if something starts off sounding positive but context shows it is actually a dogwhistle I had not come across before I will go back and correct my votes. It rarely takes even a minute to fix a dozen or so in a chain.
It isn't so much that I think my individual votes matter, but because I don't like knowing I gave a positive interactions with that thing.
Same thing if I read something as a negative and find out I was wrong, gonna flip those to upvotes!
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I upvoted this assuming the edit was humor, don't you dare prove me wrong!
Le thanks Le kind le stranger. Many updoots to you and your clan, m’trilby
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If I think the content is a net positive for Lemmy you get a upvote, even if I disagree, even if I don't like you.
So that means even if someone later reveals themselves to be an asshat, they are still adding to Lemmy's ecosystem and get to keep their upvotes.
Update: but I'm not a saint, if someone is downvoting me I'll downvote them right back
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If later text shows that my initial reading was incorrect due to missing context or because I misread their starting point, yeah. For example, if something starts off sounding positive but context shows it is actually a dogwhistle I had not come across before I will go back and correct my votes. It rarely takes even a minute to fix a dozen or so in a chain.
It isn't so much that I think my individual votes matter, but because I don't like knowing I gave a positive interactions with that thing.
Same thing if I read something as a negative and find out I was wrong, gonna flip those to upvotes!
If context is really needed to identify something as a dogwhistle, isn't it already an ineffective utility?
I'm not doubting you at all--I know next to nothing about any honest dogwhistles, but I'm always curious to know how people avoid the feeling that of paranoia in these instances--how can you be positive you aren't just yielding to a fear of some sort? -
If context is really needed to identify something as a dogwhistle, isn't it already an ineffective utility?
I'm not doubting you at all--I know next to nothing about any honest dogwhistles, but I'm always curious to know how people avoid the feeling that of paranoia in these instances--how can you be positive you aren't just yielding to a fear of some sort?Dogwhistles are for the in group to show solidarity. Those outside not recognizing the dogwhistle or having a hard time proving it is a dogwhistle is the entire purpose.
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I don't often change upvotes. Sometimes I will go back and upvote things after I better understood the poster's point.
Downvotes tho ... I review my downvotes at lemvotes.org. I haven't changed many, but I do reconsider them.
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Dogwhistles are for the in group to show solidarity. Those outside not recognizing the dogwhistle or having a hard time proving it is a dogwhistle is the entire purpose.
I hear you ...
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Le thanks Le kind le stranger. Many updoots to you and your clan, m’trilby
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