Do you vote up more or vote down more? why?
Posted Apr 23, 2009, 10:18 AM UTC
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Upvote way more.
To get a downvote you have to be pointlessly offensive, or selling something.
To get an upvote you just have to be interesting. The last person I upvoted was disagreeing with me.
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a lot of people have google adsense on their blogs now - you can't go anywhere without an ad or somebody promoting something on the side. i'm presuming you mean like a flagrant plug for a product?
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Always upvotes, I'm easily pleased.
Downvotes I rarely use, not even when the person disagrees with me. Mostly because it annoys me when somebody has a different opinion to me and downvotes me because of that.
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I NEVER downvote only because I disagree with a statement. If it's intelligent and not offensive I'll even upvote it.
If I see someone being downvoted for no apparent reason I'll also upvote him to help serve some Karma-justice.
The only posts I downvote are those that show no sensitivity in the context of the Thread (-->"I just found out I've got cancer." - "Cry me a river"), or other attacks for no apparent reason.
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I downvote major misspellings, politics outside the politics subreddit, pleas for upmods, and questions to askreddit that we've answered 95 times before.
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Exactly 95 times, or at least 95 times? ;-)
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99% upvotes. I upvote those who add to the conversation no matter if they agree or disagree with me. I only downvote spam, crap postings, or people who seem to only post to inflame for the sheer enjoyment of inflaming.
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I prefer to save my downvotes for the illiterate, the mentally retarded, the obscenely offensive and the spammers.
If someone says something interesting/funny, regardless of whether I agree with it, I generally upvote it.
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My votes are calculated to neither add nor subtract precious Karma from the universe.
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I reserve my downvotes for spam (not just blogspam, but 'See the diet that makes you look like Paris Hilton!' spam). The rest are upvotes.
It is an interesting thing to think about - I don't know how well I'd get along with compulsive downvoters, it's just a different life-attitude, I guess.
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Up. I'll upvote just about anything. I don't feel bad about downvoting comments, since they're pretty visible no matter what my one vote says, but I hate to downvote any actual submissions. I don't like it when something I think is awesome gets downvoted, so I try not to put other people through that. (Though if a story already has plenty of votes, I won't hesitate to break out the old downvote-plus-hide if it annoys me).
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I don't like it when something I think is awesome gets downvoted
Exactly. I hate when I submit a song to the music reddit which I think is good, but it gets downvoted in a space of time too short for anyone to have heard the song. That means nobody else gets to hear it, as it sits on 0 then gets no visibility.
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This is why I was asking. I've noticed submissions often get a flurry of down votes at the start. Some then manage to overcome this and go from strength to strength.
I was wondering if it was people trying to spam the system and systematically down voted stuff or if there is some psychology behind it.
Edit to add: at the moment this one bucks the trend. 8 upvotes and only 1 downvote. Maybe it's just that the ones that I look at - my viewpoint not being mainstream reddit.
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Curious to know why someone downvoted this?
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I downvote reposts...But mostly upvote comments.
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upvote. rarely downvote. i'd rather just ignore articles than downvote them.
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I prefer to save my downvotes
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Depends on how I'm feeling. I also don't vote based on merit at all. I just randomly choose up or down. Usually it has more to do if I want to see the color orange or the color blue at that moment.
Colors are pretty!
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I wonder how things would change if downvotes subtracted from your own karma.
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I figure there are enough bots downvoting everything, so I generally only upvote.
*Exception: I downvote anything related to Limbaugh
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I up-vote mostly. I rarely down-vote. I always feel like I'm censoring someone if I down-vote, which I rarely feel is justified.
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upvote the stuff that makes me lol. downvote rarely and it just has to be really really bad for that or else i wont bother
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i only upvote when i like something, when i don't like something i don't downvote it. when i really hate a submission i down vote it
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I mostly upvote, and hide stuff I don't like. If something really gets my goat, I'll downvote it.
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This is why I mostly downvote. To balance all the people who mostly upvote.
You devious bell-curve-maintaining bastid!
You are a great character in a Neil Gaiman novel.
One of my all-time favorite characters. But even he can't top Martin Silenus.