I sit on my hand and upvote my comments/posts with a numb hand so it doesn't feel like I'm the one doing it.
I don't think people should be able to vote on their own posts. It's meaningless. It doesn't matter if everyone starts from 0 or +1 or whatever.
Upvoting myself feels weird, but it feels like something I might have to do to help my posts gain traction, especially if everyone else is gonna do it. Reddit had it right, should just be the default.
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Updoots self nothing to see here, guys.
I don't think it matters if users upvote their own stuff or not, however I don't think users should be given the choice. It should either be users always upvote their own stuff, or users can't upvote their own stuff.
I've made a poll so we can decide. We could then add the most popular suggestion to the Codeberg repo. I'm personally leaning towards no self upvoting.
Update: Now we've had hella votes I've added a feature request to the repo.
I agree. As a lazy user, I do not want to have to worry about upvoting/boosting my own content.
Not fussed either way, if someone wants the little boost from the initial +1 they see from their own upvote, more power to them.
I'm happy starting at zero and seeing where the community takes me.
I've seen Redditors that took the time to manually unvote themselves. They like playing hard mode I guess
Unless they told you and you believe them, you can’t really know if it’s them who unvoted themselves, since Reddit only shows the total.
I generally believe in myself, so I'd upvote me, if I weren't so lazy. Reddit helped me with it.
I liked reddit's approach. Self upvoting your posts if they aren't upvoted feels ridiculous. (ok, I have upvoted 1-2 of mine when trying to figure out how it works, but it still feels ridiculous)
So I would prefer if they are already pre-upvoted, or you should not be allowed to vote your posts/comments
I used to downvote myself if my comment was shown to be egregiously wrong as some sort of masochistic exercise.
you can go to the next level and next time try blocking yourself!
I think Reddit's vote system was pretty near perfect, especially in the early days. You should upvote your own posts by default. I also prefer having a combined "score" rather than different scores for upvotes and downvotes.
Oh, and can we get a "sort by top" for comments? I miss that from Reddit.
I also prefer having a combined "score" rather than different scores for upvotes and downvotes.
I don't. A post that's been voted 100 times and down 95 times is completely different from a post that's been upvoted 5 times and not downvoted at all. That's good information to have, both as a poster and a reader.
Also, enough people use downvotes as an "I disagree" button that I don't think they ought to be counted (or should be counted minimally) when determining what content rises to the top, or we'll end up with another echo chamber.
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