I used to downvote fairly often on Reddit as a sign to disagree or to push down really disgusting bigoted comments. And to be honest, it became a habit to just downvote without replying. However, now that I’m on lemmy and not Reddit I’ve been actively trying to not instantly downvote things and instead move on or take the time to reply. Has anyone else been trying to do this?
I joined Beehaw. We don’t even have the option. The ethos is to at least attempt to give the OP the benefit of the doubt when we find problematic content (unless it’s just blatantly trolling or in bad faith) and try to educate ignorance.
Otherwise, we just report and move on.