Get off your high fucking horse. Upvotes are for content you want to see, downvotes are for content you don't. Can we stop pretending there's some bullshit morality attached or that they're for anything other than base popularity?

If it's garbage then I'll downvote it and maybe block the user if they continue to post garbage in the future.

Yes it's effort, but is it constructive?

Up vote = I agree

Down vote = I disagree

Reported = I super disagree

And anyone who says that they don't do this is a bloody liar.

I'm pretty sure the intent when upvotes and downvotes were created was to use them in regards to relevance. Is the topic about ducks and someone is going off about jeeps? Downvote. Is the community about posting DIY peanut butter but someone keeps posting Skippy™? Downvote.

It shouldn't have anything to do with agreeing, effort, or anything like that. Just a way to keep the topic/community on track.

the reason I upvote a post can differ. sometimes it'll be because I agree with it, sometimes it'll be because I want more people to see it and interact with it.

Harmful ideas should be downvoted and repressed even if they took effort to type out, actually

This isn't Reddit, there's no account-wide tracking of special Internet points to worry about.

I upvote signal and downvote noise. Novelty is good whether I agree with it or not, redundancy is bad.

Upvote = I laughed. That's what I came for. To many occasions nowadays where a post's main purpose is something other than making me laugh. Y'all need to entertain me better.

If everything is upvoted then doesn't that kind of defeat the point? Isn't the point of voting to raise the good stuff to the top? So I don't have to browse furry porn to see some news highlights or shitposts.

Sometimes I see memes I don't agree with, but I'll still upvote if they're funny. If you can't laugh at yourself every now and then, you're probably not a secure person

We don't need posts that are like, Facebook quality

Redditors want to make rules now, huh?

Why should we care what motivates people to upvote or downvote?

I only upvote comments if the person posted something I was going to post myself. Saves me time. If I think the post itself is cool I upvote the post.

Has anyone made a Simpsons shitpost thing I can join? That's pretty much all I miss from reddit. That and Slay by Comment

I frequently upvote amd comment here as a means of contribution because we need to make Lemmy bigger and pull in users.