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

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You are supposed to upvote things that:

    • you like
    • belong in the community it’s posted in
    • upvoting favors it for the algorithm, ranking it higher and making it stay longer. If you want others to see the stuff, you upvote.

    With comments, you are supposed to upvote things that contribute to the discussion, even if you disagree with it, but in practice people often just upvote what they like and agree with and downvote what they don’t agree with and there is pretty much nothing anyone can do to change that. So do what you think is right.