I sometimes post news articles that examine possible problems in society. Some may agree with the author, some may disagree. I often see these posts being downvoted if many disagree with the author.

Why do you downvote the post instead of commenting to express your disagreement?

As far as I understand, the idea is to upvote the post to spur conversation and comment to express your agreement or disagreement. Or did I misunderstand something?

  • pancake@lemmy.ml
    64·
    10 months ago

    I tend to upvote everything, no matter how much I disagree. I don’t trust my own opinions or the authors’, all of them are flawed in some way.

    • Mane25English
      13·
      10 months ago

      If you upvote everything isn’t that the equivalent of not upvoting anything?

      • pancake@lemmy.ml
        51·
        10 months ago

        Absolutely. But I don’t want to influence anything, just make the OP slightly happier and hopefully have a good read myself.

        • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          unexpected awwwww!

          you’re compensating for that automatic single downvote that ~50% of all posts and comments seem to get ;-)

          • Mane25English
            4·
            10 months ago

            I mean, 100% of posts get an automatic upvote because they all start at 1 instead of zero!