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What's everyone's thoughts on down votes and up votes. What do they mean to you. When do you down vote?

In my experience I only use the down vote, when a comment or post does not reflect the COMMUNITY it is posted in, not because I dislike X Y or Z.

I ask this because I have noticed many times when posting in smaller more niche communities that a post will get random down votes and I suspect it is from people scrolling new or hot and just down voting things that don't like.

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[-] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Also realize - votes here are federated, meaning they are 100% public, like tweets on Twitter.

[-] quazar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Where can I see someone's up/down vote list?

[-] kfoo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can't - they're not tracked in that way.

[-] quazar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

so, dick justice isn't right? I mean, I can understand if the upvotes/downvotes are publicly transmitted.... who knows what the instances share with each other. Maybe they are "%100 public" given some API calls...

[-] kfoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The upvote/downvote tally total is transmitted, and your individual user can add or subtract 1 to each tally, but the Lemmy devs made a conscious decision to not track up/downvotes per user in a "reddit karma" like fashion: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2370#issuecomment-1196642040

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