What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I’m not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?
I never vote up or down on here in the same manner that I never click Like on any social media sites either, I don’t see what the intent behind it is.
I found this on Wikipedia:
Using a system of upvotes and downvotes users can influence what content appears at the top of the main feeds and of each community.
So if you find a post interesting, you can upvote it. And if someone posts cat pictures in asklemmy, you can downvote it, because it’s off-topic and maybe you want to discourage such behaviour.
I’m not sure if Lemmy has upvote counters for users, but either way if you upvote a post or comment you say that it’s useful/interesting, and it’s a bit like a “thank you” in real life.
