What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I’m not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?

I never vote up or down on here in the same manner that I never click Like on any social media sites either, I don’t see what the intent behind it is.

  • Spzi@lemmy.click
    4·
    2 years ago

    That’s why you sometimes see people downvoted into oblivion, simply for stating something which is true, within a community that is deluded about that given thing. Whether the votes accurately represent the value of the content, depends entirely on who sees it.

    Even in that example the system works as described and intended. That community deems “true statements” bad content, hence they downvote it.

    It is not an objective measure, but reflects how much a given community values a specific content, how much they find it relevant.

    • MentalEdge
      5·
      2 years ago

      Exactly. And due to the self-curation that subscribing brings, posts are likely to be seen mostly by people whose head-spaces align. For better, or worse.