Some people leave their bio-waste disposals open? How revolting.

You should do this anyway to minimize particle spray upon flushing

There is only one correct way. Lid closed when not in use and before flush. The sole exception was at my old house the spare bathroom was configured to allow the birds to perch above the toilet to poop but at the current one they are training to use garbage bins with a fig branch above to have more poop spots since only the pigeon would fly through the whole house to get to the toilet and the rest only if they were already nearby.

It's literally cleaner / more hygienic to close the toilet completely before flushing

everyone should put the seat fully down and flush, everytime, everyone.

Malicious compliance? No, this is just basic decency

Both seats should always be shut before flushing. The lid is there for a reason. Guys that keep the seats up have piss and shit all over their bathrooms, including their toothbrushes. I hope this horifies many of you. It really should.

Can't believe people are arguing this with me. Hope i never find myself anywhere near yalls nasty ass bathrooms.

I put the lid down to prevent shit particles from spreading

The hell does your toilet have two seats instead of 1 seat and a lid for?

Always close the toilet lid when you aren’t using it, and before you flush it. Leaving the seat open is disgusting.

I support, it makes it fair for everyone! Everyone puts down seats, everyone puts up seats. Yay.

I have become a sitdown pee-r. The slashback you cant see is kinda insane

Side effect is that i have to actually use my toilet brush now because the brown water ring doesnt get washed away 9x a day anymore

We do this anyway. The lid literally exists for basic hygeine purposes.

Be amazed at how less you have to clean the toilet and surrounding area by closing the lid, jeez.

Wait, closing both is malicious compliance?

I generally believe if your anatomy requires the toilet seat in a certain position, it should be incumbent upon you to ensure it's in the right spot before you use it. 50% (ish) of people usually need it up, and 50% usually need it down, why should girls get to dictate this and complain if I don't preemptively put it down for them? Suck it up, buttercup. Put on (or I guess take off, in this case) your big girl panties and make it work.

That being said, I've just always closed the whole thing before I flush anyway, so now both of us are going to need to raise at least one layer of it before we can use it again. Closed lid reduces splashing the poop particles all over the place, looks nicer and cleaner, hides any racing stripes you haven't managed to pee off yet, etc. Just seems like the right way to go. Nothing malicious about it.

Edit: Jesus fuck, how many stupid gotcha replies are y'all gonna post here?! Yes, I am very clear on the fact that there isn't exactly a 50.000000:50.000000 split of males to females in the world. Yes, I am very clear that it is in fact possible, and sometimes preferred, for men to sit to pee, and that, having done it more than a few times myself, they also occasionally need to sit down to poop. Should I have said "want" instead of "need"? Eh, probably. None of that was anywhere near my point.

My point is that if you want or need the toilet seat in a particular position, that's on you, bucko. It's not my job to stage the toilet to your preference, regardless of what is or isn't going on in your undercarriage. I leave it 100% closed, seat and lid, every time, before I flush. Others may leave it in different positions. I don't know, I'm not them. Either way, if you want/need it a certain way, it's on you to put it that way, ideally before the pee starts coming out.

I would be ecstatic if my SO did this. Our cats are prone to playing with the water.