I tend to upvote a post when it Links an interesting article or provokes an interesting conversation, and only downvote them when they voice an convectively bad opinion (like, bigotry or other unjustified vitriol).
I tend to upvote comments when they make a good point or at least try to support their argument, and only downvote them for the same reason as posts: when they are trolling, being unnecessarily aggressive, or trying to justify bigotry with fallacious reasoning or something
What about you?
Parallel to the join-lemmy.org documentation (see below) I upvote what I want to see more of, and downvote what I want to see less of.
“You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them. Or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen.” ~ https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Yeah, but how do you qualify that?
Funny? Up. Useful? Up. Asshole? Down. Bonus: cats/bats/art, up.
Easy.
Ah, I suppose I can be a bit more specific about my process.
Posts: upvote if I care/liked it, downvote if I don’t care about the post so I will hopefully see more of what I care about, and less of what I could careless about.
Comments: upvote those that add value, and really only downvote those that specifically subtract value (mostly when people are being jerks)