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how bad is it if someone just never upvotes ever again (hexbear.net)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by 12022081631@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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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)

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[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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 tory I invite the mods to go further and consider the postive, pro-social benefits of removing votes entirely

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I used to post 'good post.' under posts that I liked a lot.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I took the sage advice of kristina who said if you have nothing else to say just say lmao

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

literally the most smoke'n'mirrors phrase of all time.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Did other people also do this? I feel like that was or is a common thing on here

[–] miz@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

uhh maybe you get validation in other areas of your life but not all of us are so lucky

[–] 12022081631@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

we need to start a club or something. maybe we should all manually add signatures to every single one of our posts. it might bring the wrong energy but maybe the wrong energy is exactly what people need thonk

Why upbear when you can comment something nice? Join the No Vote club today

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Signature images really were the bateman-business-card of the 00s, early 10s internet

[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

I'm surprised there an emote for that, but yea! I think what's neat is the creativity that went into some of those.

[–] 12022081631@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

ironically i have been writing in this thread from a web browser that doesnt have the buttons ublock'd and I can feel myself becoming a stronger no-voter when i see posts this quality and don't upvote instinctively