Since on most fediverse instances you don't automatically upvote your own comment, do you do it manually? What's considered "proper etiquette"? Because on Reddit your stuff is self-upvoted automatically, while in YT comment sections comments with 1 like sometimes get called out for liking their own comment. Do we have an established standard here yet, and if not what are your thoughts on it?
See, I always thought that felt really weird when Reddit did it, I never liked that. To me, if a post has zero up votes, that should mean either no one has seen it yet or that everyone who has feels entirely neutral about it, it's right at 0. If there's at least 1 upvote, that should mean at least 1 person found it good, and if it's negative, at least 1 person thinks it isn't. To start that total at 1 instead of 0 feels arbitrary and like designed to be less intuitive, not more.
Like someone said above (but making the opposite point from them here), if you didn't like it, why would you post it? You having posted or commented at all is evidence you meant to, have you ever commented or posted by accident? There's intentionality there by default, I don't see why it needs the auto self-upvote to start with.
Agreed. I also boost, as it adds visibility on instances that look at those and not upvotes.
Plus, boosting and upvoting create indexes for me to easily access my content later via my profile (boosts show up under the boosts tab, upvotes show up under favorites).
I also try to upvote and boost a fair number of the comments that reply to my threads as appreciation for the contribution.
@Wit I have Mastodon and Misskey account, and can share a bit experience. On Mastodon you really only Boost if you want your message pop up on your followers feed again. On Misskey it is required as people not boost they re-note (post=note) so you make a note, no one saw, you re-note, someone saw and re-note and then maybe someone again re-note. I made 10 note by myself, I have 950 from July 6 till July 15. For everyone in Fediverse it will be boost, while for fellow keys it's re-note.
If I think my comment is more relevant than all the others I see, I even boost myself lmao. No shame hahah.
When I'm contributing to the conversation, I upvote myself. When I'm no longer contributing to the original discussion (like I'm talking with someone and we get somewhat off topic), I don't upvote myself anymore.
It's more about what order a new person should see stuff!
If its wrong to upvote own posts, then it should be disabled.
If there are different policies re auto own voting then over time users from instances which do it will end up with higher scores over time. all else being equal.
Not usually. There've been a couple where the conventional wisdom had people downvoting, because butthurt children, and I self-upvoted as a way to suggest that, "Hey, there's something of value here if you don't knee jerk so much." Seems to have worked, if only marginally.
That's why kbin should self-upvote by default. If only Michael Scotts are upvoting their own comments, then the Michael Scotts have an inherent advantage in comment visibility.
We're going to hear more from the Michael Scotts and less from the humble Pams.
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