1 yr. ago • 82%

Anybody else gets more upvotes in here than over THAT site?

I could swear to God I never hit the 10 mark over there. In here as long as it isn't a "^this" I get 10-20, and solidly hit the 50 mark if I comment something truly meaningful.

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Stop caring about upvotes, you'll live a happier life.

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- Right now upvote is just a metric for me to see how active the place is, otherwise don’t care
  
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  I treat it like an acknowledgement button for the replies I get.
  
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- No, you're going to take my upvote and you're going to like it! I DEMAND TO LEAVE POSITIVE IMPACT!
  
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Nope. For whatever reason, I was drowning in upvotes in the other place. But to be honest, I don't even know how many I get here, because thankfully, it's only tallied per post rather than per person/account

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- Similar experience to yours for me.
  
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- It is tallied per account, whatever client you’re using just isn’t showing it to you.
  
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  Is it by server? My home server doesn't appear to show it.
  
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  Same thing in the end
  
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i've said this before but because there's a small community vibe across lemmy and kbin it's much easier to be heard and seen. a lot of people are interested in building communities here which drives engagement way up.

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Something important to realize is, upvotes attributed to a profile was once designed to place profiles on a trust scale. A person with more upvotes in general would simply, and naturally, be more listened and trust than a person with low or even negative upvotes.

The problem is our brain can easily fall in the trap which has been used by marketing for decades now : the reward circuit.

Thus people prone to make a lot of money abused that, and even raised the problem to an other level with bots and competition. They did so because it creates addiction. And what addiction does create ? Spending money. So you really don’t want profile accumulated upvotes on Lemmy.

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- Maybe the solution is to show that "something" (that on Reddit was known as karma) only to other users and never ever to yourself 😄
  
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  u know a lot of people have sfw and nsfw accounts? They can see their own karma
  
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No idea. I'm not worried about em. This space feels way more like home now though. Almost like that other place a decade or more ago.

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You don't get buried in other peoples' comments as easily here

Enjoy your stay and stop worrying about updoots

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Personally it depends. Back in reddit, my quippy remarks/attempts to be funny seem to get a decent upvote rate, but for more serious comments/questions/discussions, lemmy definitely has more interaction

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Not really but I have lost the care about upvote/downvote. Reddit has shown me - that caring for it, is BS.

In one moment you have it and the other moment, it’s gone. Because they can take it away, ban you etc.

I would even prefer it if there was an option to disable the visibility of the upvote/downvote.

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Permanently Deleted

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Yep everyone here is much kinder, smarter and better looking

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One upvote means at least one person appreciates you. More than that, there are no karmas or anything. You can use the votes to see the most appreciated comments, though.

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Also your inbox blows up with post/comment replies - and they're not snippy argument-starters either. Feels good man.

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- The snippy comments were the worst, sometimes even completely off of normal comments too like a snippy response to "Oh my God, I love high dives too! They are somewhat more rare these days, but a lake around here still has a few jump platforms. The only other one I've been to was in a swim complex in Germany"
  
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Not really, but less folk to upvote so understandable.

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I actually used an extension that hid karma scores.

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There's no karma so what's the point. It's a bit of a dopamine chase anyway.

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It's actually not that different for me because I knew how to get points even in a huge thread; but I don't want upvotes, I just want to talk and also don't want a question to be downvoted and buried without being answered.

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Not even a little bit. I felt like Usher in the early 2000s, just drowning in .... You get the idea.

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I do but I'm not actively trying to piss anyone off here, so I guess that it's deserved?

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I hit a few thousand pointers here and there, but mostly just from making appropriately glib remarks on trending topics.

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Less people -> less upvotes ig

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Something truly meaningful

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- I'm truly, completely, absolutely sorry
  
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