Since on most fediverse instances you don’t automatically upvote your own comment, do you do it manually? What’s considered “proper etiquette”? Because on Reddit your stuff is self-upvoted automatically, while in YT comment sections comments with 1 like sometimes get called out for liking their own comment. Do we have an established standard here yet, and if not what are your thoughts on it?

  • density ( density@kbin.social ) 
    6·
    3 years ago

    If its wrong to upvote own posts, then it should be disabled.

    If there are different policies re auto own voting then over time users from instances which do it will end up with higher scores over time. all else being equal.

  • effingjoe ( effingjoe@kbin.social ) 
    3·
    3 years ago

    I like and boost my posts for visibility but my comments I don’t. PSA: you can see who upvotes and downvotes any post or comment by selecting “more” and then “activity”. I can see you upvoted your post, for example. As far as I am aware, this is a kbin thing-- lemmy does not make this visible to the user.

    And I think it might as well implement an automatic upvote for everything, like reddit and lemmy (or lemmy.world, anyway).

  • Prouvaire ( Prouvaire@kbin.social ) 
    2·
    3 years ago

    I don’t upvote or boost anything I create (if I have it would have been by accident or as a test) - it feels weird to do so.

    There is an argument for threads/comments to start with 1 upvote, ala reddit, in order to “reward” people for contributing by adding to their rep, even if no other people upvote them further. On the other hand, if for instance total rep were to be capped (there’s been some discussion of doing this as it has various benefits), and that cap is relatively low, then maybe all contributions should start off at 0 in order to prevent people from maximising their karma by spamming.

    • savedr ( savedr@forum.fail ) 
      2·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, and like, if all you have to do is post a bunch with auto upvotes on to get rep, is that rep real? Isn’t it a lot more real if other people have upvoted your stuff on purpose, not you? As valuable as that even is anyway

  • savedr ( savedr@forum.fail ) 
    2·
    3 years ago

    See, I always thought that felt really weird when Reddit did it, I never liked that. To me, if a post has zero up votes, that should mean either no one has seen it yet or that everyone who has feels entirely neutral about it, it’s right at 0. If there’s at least 1 upvote, that should mean at least 1 person found it good, and if it’s negative, at least 1 person thinks it isn’t. To start that total at 1 instead of 0 feels arbitrary and like designed to be less intuitive, not more.

    Like someone said above (but making the opposite point from them here), if you didn’t like it, why would you post it? You having posted or commented at all is evidence you meant to, have you ever commented or posted by accident? There’s intentionality there by default, I don’t see why it needs the auto self-upvote to start with.