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
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    1 year 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.ml
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      1 year ago

      unexpected awwwww!

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

      • Mane25@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

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