I grew up browsing the Facepunch forums, where self-rating posts was also possible and public at least at one point in time.
To be blunt, it kinda just made everyone who did it look like a tool and they got hella made fun of. So no, you're not the only one, I avoid upvoting my own stuff like the plague.
I upvote my own stuff because on reddit something having 0 upvotes means someone downvoted it, so i associate having 0 points as "bad" even though that doesn't make sense here because downvotes are shown separately :D force of habit
i actually love that downvotes are shown separately and i hope that never changes. on reddit, i grew accustomed to glancing at the rating and allowing it to determine my opinion of the comment, whether subconsciously or not, which is wrong and usually unfair due to mass downvoting (1 downvote brings an onslaught of downvotes). on kbin though, the fact that they are separated changes how i perceive comments a lot, i view them way more neutrally and hardly pay attention to the score. nice change of pace
Reddit allowed you to see the exact number of upvotes and downvotes until 2014, and it had a similar effect to how it is over here. It feels great to have them back!
For me it's more like: me upvoting my old comment because I forgot I wrote it because I think "Hey, this guy's being reasonable and not yelling at people and stated both positives and negatives about a subject while trying to present a balanced view."
Then a few seconds later, looking at the username and realizing, "Oh hey... that was me."
Alternatively: "This was useful advice and solved my hardware problem, upvote" and then realizing it was also me, but I'd forgotten that I once knew the solution to that hardware (or software) problem.
Edit: although to be fair, in both of these circumstances (particularly the second) I'm talking about the entire internet in general rather than kbin / lemmy.
maybe, in any case its not such a big deal for now. ernest and his team are very busy with more serious matters, so im sure they will sort that later if need be. auto boosting wouldnt make much sense tho, since its like a retweet. i know we do it now for reputation, but when the reputation is fixed it wont need to be used for that
10A, we meet again. yes, i do it cause im use to seeing +1 upvote on reddit, and posts look sad and lonely starting off with 0 and 0 lol. cant say i ever downvoted my own post or comment tho, usually ill edit it and correct myself in that case, and not upvote it. everyone has their own way of going about it (ㅅ´ ˘ `)
Last time this happened I edited to add something like "Edit: This is a bad response. See below." and then downvoted it. If you edit too much, the rest of the conversation won't make sense anymore.
But agreed, posts with no upvotes look so sad and unloved!
Upvotes don't affect reputation (yet) so I feel there is no foul in self-upvoting. It just slightly improves visibility of the content in the 'hot' section when freshly posted.
i dont think there is a foul even if it did, did self upvoting on reddit even affect karma anyway? it's just a fun little personal thing for me lol harmless
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