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Why vote on posts? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by Lengsel to c/[email protected]

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What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I'm not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?

I never vote up or down on here in the same manner that I never click Like on any social media sites either, I don't see what the intent behind it is.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To show the algorithm what the best topics or answers are. Basically a self regulating community. In theory trolls, spam and false information could be lowered in priority if the community decides to downvote that ~~person~~ post (Edit: Dang it, I meant post, not person.). In reality however, this voting mechanism gets misused as well. And unpopular opinions are often downvoted, even if they are correct and just an opinion (happens all the time in Reddit). So there are good and bad things about it.

Unlike Twitter or most social communities, Reddit and kbin let's you sort the replies by different systems, if you don't like the most voted or commented topics to be on top of the list. So you as a reader can still totally ignore it if you want.