this is an experiment i have done for the last week or something. no upbear counters, no upbear buttons, just sorted by new or new comments. it has been very nice, but i know that inevitably somebody is gonna feel like i’m being snooty to them for not upbearing them. its very nice that people are taking time out of their day to engage with me on the net, and i always feel that when i get the notifications, but i think some of them are gonna take it personally if i keep this crap up
the question: how important is this little courtesy to you??? does it bother you if you dont get upvotes when you are talking to people?
thank you for your replies but know that for responding to this survey i cannot offer any remuneration. you are encouraged to not upbear this post or even report it if you see any flagrant rulebreaks
just for context i have done this experiment to see if it feels better and if i feel less obsessive about innernet points/see if i make better comments without the motivation (turns out this one is a no)
I don’t like upvotes at all. When I last discussed it I got replies saying ‘oh your instance allows you to hide upvotes’ but 1) that’s not my point and 2) it doesn’t work (you can hover over the post to see the counts). Yes i welcome removing downvotes is critical in creating this sites culture but
I invite the mods to go further and consider the postive, pro-social benefits of removing votes entirely
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I’m on board with this. If we could have banner length custom images in the sig too that’d be sick
Death to America
Signature images really were the
of the 00s, early 10s internet
I’m surprised there an emote for that, but yea! I think what’s neat is the creativity that went into some of those.
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I used to post ‘good post.’ under posts that I liked a lot.
I took the sage advice of kristina who said if you have nothing else to say just say lmao
literally the most smoke’n’mirrors phrase of all time.
Did other people also do this? I feel like that was or is a common thing on here
uhh maybe you get validation in other areas of your life but not all of us are so lucky