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Do up/down votes matter?
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this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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I thought up/down wasn't for approval/disapproval, but to vote if the post was worth reading. In other words, a well written, factual article about a topic you disagree with should have a good number of up votes.
Theory and practice quite frequently don't align in reality and humans are spiteful.
Hey, fuck you. I'm not spiteful!
Well then your username checks out
Upvoted because it's an imprtant contribution, not because I agree with it.
It's supposed to be that way, but Lemmy doesn't always follow that system.
I'm fine with or without a voting system. It does seem to me that the instances which don't allow downvotes seem a little bit better behaved though.