this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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[–] Lonnie123@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think more Lemmy users need to learn that the upvote and downvote buttons aren’t meant to be used to indicate agreement and disagreement respectively, it’s to indicate if a comment is valuable contribution to the discussion regardless of whether or not you agree.

Not saying I disagree in any way, but this will never ever happen. Its the same idea on reddit and its basically been a lost fight, its the "I like/dont like this comment" button 99% of the time, and I just dont see widespread adoption of the "quality of content" idea ever taking hold on a site that is open to the gen public.

The same kind of applies to your 3rd point... Why people feel the need to add a 4,600 "I like firefox" to a thread about Chrome I will never know, but they do and always will.