Pretty much the same. I’ll look at the post or headline or whatever and make my assessment of if I want to see more like that. If I see downvotes already there tho, I try to figure out why. Sometimes the post does turn out to be spammier or more controversial or more factually wrong than it first appeared.

NGL even from back in reddit I only notice the vote score after I clicked on a post or after reading the comments.

If it’s generating discussion, I upvote, regardless of how many votes it has.

If I participate in the discussion, I upvote, regardless of how many votes it has.

If people are participating in the discussion in good faith, I upvote, regardless of how many votes each comment has.

It’s the only way to boost engagement in the community, by pushing quality discussions and posts to the top.

Also my instance disabled downvoting so I don’t do that.

No, I disabled that in the settings so I don’t see it

I prefer this account most of the time as it’s on an instance that doesn’t allow downvotes. It’s eye-opening what kind of comments and content get highly upvoted on Lemmy - it’s not all good. In fact, seeing some of the mass amounts of upvotes on sexist type comments is incredibly disheartening. It initially turned me away from Lemmy when I first joined.

Sometimes I do like to hop onto a different account and I utilize downvotes then. Usually try to save downvotes for vile opinions or things that don’t contribute to the conversation. It can be a good head’s up if a post is worth a curious glance. Hopping into the drama can be fun here and there.

I think voting disincentivices discussion, so I don’t do it.

If I have an opinion on something I’ll leave a comment instead. If I only want to vote but not take the time to comment, then it’s clearly not worth interacting with at the moment and I scroll on. Might come back later if I feel like it and remember.

I sort by old comments and by new posts.

I discover posts usually exclusively through my notifications, where upvotes and downvotes aren’t displayed. And I don’t look at them until after I’ve decided what to do with the post.

If a post in new is heavily downvoted, I’ll check the username. Sometimes it’s just Cheese! That lovable rascal, asking stupid questions in the “No Stupid Questions” munis. Sometimes it’s one of a handful of other users, drunkposting or similar.

But if I don’t recognize the name, I know it’s either trolling or drama. Trolling I downvote or report and move on. Drama I wade in and start shitkicking.

Nope, this is the most I’ve ever thought about it.

I do, only to try and suss out if it’s a .ml drama reason for downvotes, or, just, like, something normal.

I usually glance at it just to see what I’m getting into.

I downvote for inaccurate/old/not relevant/misinformation.

However, I also see down votes on the posts themselves to signify for others they disagree with the finding/topic but I myself try to refrain from doing that to still encourage people to keep posting.

I.E. Topics that are not privacy-respecting but still interesting is commonly downvoted, some trivial news sometimes about media, etc.

Honestly, if its an article I dont agree with the findings of, I just move on. No downvotes or up votes.

I notice it because its obvious in the interface but it does not reduce my clickage. heck if the post is so bad the posters history is real bad then I just block them and that is how I keep my feed tidy. almost never have to do that though but if I want to see bad content because I want to curate my own feed. I don’t need others to do it for me.

If I dislike a comment but notice that it has a decent amount of upvotes, I’ll reread it in case I’ve misconstrued what the OP was actually saying.

Just to feel the room’s temperature, but I always speak my mind regardless (it’s Lemmy, if you’re not honest here where are you honest?). Unless I’m missing something, the post stands by itself (or not) regardless of votes.