I downvote because “content” is a bullshit word made up by C-suite jackasses to describe a budget line item. I upvote for art I appreciate, questions that are good questions asked in good faith, news and information that are informative. “Content” is only a thing if your job is “gather eyeballs for ad revenue”, a phenomenon which can’t even exist on Lemmy.
Even if there weren’t competition (and there definitely is, spend some time in the New feed if you want to see some really bad posts that don’t make it there); I’d still want the best ones on top.
My favorite is downvoting both sides of a political discussion when both sides have stopped citing interesting arguments/facts, and have devolved to name calling or some variant of “don’t care”.
It was overused the first time it was used. “We are not the same” is such elitist garbage. I can’t believe a meme used for looking down on people and being arrogant has seen such wide use.
Just gotta keep re-reminding people from time to time. We get a lot of newcomers still, and probably will for the foreseeable future, so some bad habit bleed-over from other internet spaces is pretty inevitable.
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