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How do you feel about people upvoting their own posts? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by LexaPrime@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I always thought it was a pretty smart idea on Reddit's side to have the posts and comments be automatically upvoted by their author, saving them the tough choice between playing fair or boosting their initial reach a little; and if you had particularly low self-esteem, this enabled you to reduce your own points by not one, but two, by self-downvoting.
Here, both upvotes and downvotes (or rather, favourites and reduces) start at 0, and you have the option to upvote your post manually (which I've already seen some people do) - which, while currently does not increase your reputation, does give you that small initial boost by making it look like people are starting to engage with your post.

What do you think - should the posts and comments be automatically upvoted by the author? If not, are you fine with people upvoting themselves, or do you feel it's unfair towards the ones that don't do it?

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[–] missingno@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Upvoting myself feels weird, but it feels like something I might have to do to help my posts gain traction, especially if everyone else is gonna do it. Reddit had it right, should just be the default.

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I generally believe in myself, so I'd upvote me, if I weren't so lazy. Reddit helped me with it.

[–] s804@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always upvote myself. For me it is that if I can't support (and love) myself first, how others can do that after too? So since I enjoy what I post I always upvote and boost them. Hell yeah I don't care if people don't approve, I believe in myself and don't need to be approved from others. If the feature exists it should be used, otherwise just remove it or make it automatic hahaha

[–] missmystique@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Self upvotes feel fine yet self boosts feel excessive to me, but I don't have an actual reason for thinking that.

[–] s804@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they should make it automatic for people, makes a lot more sense!

[–] duringoverflow@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I liked reddit's approach. Self upvoting your posts if they aren't upvoted feels ridiculous. (ok, I have upvoted 1-2 of mine when trying to figure out how it works, but it still feels ridiculous)

So I would prefer if they are already pre-upvoted, or you should not be allowed to vote your posts/comments

[–] Eavolution@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think it matters if users upvote their own stuff or not, however I don't think users should be given the choice. It should either be users always upvote their own stuff, or users can't upvote their own stuff.

[–] Anon2971@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I've made a poll so we can decide. We could then add the most popular suggestion to the Codeberg repo. I'm personally leaning towards no self upvoting.

Update: Now we've had hella votes I've added a feature request to the repo.

[–] IBNobody@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I agree. As a lazy user, I do not want to have to worry about upvoting/boosting my own content.

[–] jcrm@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I think Reddit's vote system was pretty near perfect, especially in the early days. You should upvote your own posts by default. I also prefer having a combined "score" rather than different scores for upvotes and downvotes.

Oh, and can we get a "sort by top" for comments? I miss that from Reddit.