Old habits die hard, but there’s Reddiquette which needs to be revived, and some which needs to die.
Many “golden-age” redditors remember a time when downvoting was reserved for hostility, not a different opinion. For the sake of our growing community I would like to implore everyone to be awesome to each other.
However, this place is not Reddit.
- We don’t measure in bananas here.
- We don’t need to append “edit: typo” to edited posts and comments.
- if you see something which is worthy of a downvote: down vote and move on! Don’t engage with it and feed the algorithm/engament machine so other people are exposed to it when sorting by active.
It’s not as personal as that. Down voting just means that the post/comment will be further down if you’re sorting by ‘top’. The more upvotes the closer that thing will be to the top of the page. It’s not just for you, it’s for everyone. If that makes sense?
Right, got it, thanks a lot. I’ll stop downvoting in that case, except if something is really offensive.