• My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I want to upvote this because I like it, but now I’m conflicted because I don’t want to inadvertently abuse the upvote mechanism.

    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      yo - upvote it if you think it’s worth it for other people to see it, whether you agree with it or not. it might spark a debate. it might sway opinion. but either way, voting for visibility is the best thing to do on a SMALL forum like this. Appreciate lemmy while it’s still small!!!

      AND fwiw - your upvotes should probably not be monitored. that would just be a huge dick move (sorry, it took me a sec).

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        15 hours ago

        Im not going to upvote something if I don’t agree with it. I understand the power of voting, it increases or decreases visibility. But I am not going to willingly increase the visibility of something I don’t agree with.

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          14 hours ago

          Considering e.g. a thoughtful, insightful, well-researched post with a conclusion we completely disagree with and feel is likely to lead to negative outcomes - but is still a perspective that should be understood if we want to be well rounded:

          Binary up/downvotes have a really hard time of capturing what we want to see reflected as our assessment.

          Edit: blessed be thy highly-voted child comment

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            As someone from the U.S., it seems like that concept has practically disappeared from the country. The nuances of civil debate, including the acknowledgement of differing opinions as valid, don’t exist in most of our popular media (both traditional and social.) We’ve been conditioned to react to things immediately and intensely using our emotions instead. There has been a slide toward this state for decades, but it’s come to the point where a lot of people genuinely struggle with separating “thing they personally disagree with/don’t like” from “thing that shouldn’t be said/heard/shared.”

            (Not saying that’s the case with OP, just that it’s definitely a thing that’s been going on.)