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?

  • 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!