Since on most fediverse instances you don’t automatically upvote your own comment, do you do it manually? What’s considered “proper etiquette”? Because on Reddit your stuff is self-upvoted automatically, while in YT comment sections comments with 1 like sometimes get called out for liking their own comment. Do we have an established standard here yet, and if not what are your thoughts on it?
I like and boost my posts for visibility but my comments I don’t. PSA: you can see who upvotes and downvotes any post or comment by selecting “more” and then “activity”. I can see you upvoted your post, for example. As far as I am aware, this is a kbin thing-- lemmy does not make this visible to the user.
And I think it might as well implement an automatic upvote for everything, like reddit and lemmy (or lemmy.world, anyway).
Yeah I figure the fact everyone can see us doing it means it’s okay to do.
When I was first here I was just trying to get people to stay so I was boosting and upvoting everyone’s content like crazy, including stuff I contributed. Lately I mostly post to a tiny community (@worldwithoutus) so I’m always hoping for visibility.
Taking off that auto-upvote and starting from 0 was - mostly humorously - referred to as “Reddit hard mode” back in the day.
That was at least partially because it’s far more likely that someone else chose to downvote rather than the commenter / OP, and that meant the content was tainted with suspicion from the outset.
But, if everyone starts out in hard mode it’s not really hard mode any more.
Also, we can see both favourites and reductions (up- and downvotes) here* so it’s slightly clearer what’s going on even if someone chooses to rate their own content.
ETA: kbin ego mode: favourite your own stuff; kbin hard mode: reduce it.
* kbin.social. Perhaps not so at other Fediverse places.
If I think my comment is more relevant than all the others I see, I even boost myself lmao. No shame hahah.
When I’m contributing to the conversation, I upvote myself. When I’m no longer contributing to the original discussion (like I’m talking with someone and we get somewhat off topic), I don’t upvote myself anymore.
It’s more about what order a new person should see stuff!
I upvote everything I post. If I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t have submitted it.
