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When I joined Lemmy I used to upvote everything I mild agreed, but then I felt that I couldn't emphasise the truly good comments because I already upvoted everything else.

So now I only upvote the best comments of a thread or a post (or at least of the ones I get to read).

As for down votes, I kinda hate getting down voted, therefore I don't usually down vote just because I disagree, I can disagree and still respect one's opinion (unless it's something reactionary and/or that trully infuriates me).

If I said something that is factually wrong then by all means, down vote so other people may not be mislead by something I thought it was true. But I don't think it' nice to down vote on comments just because you don't share the same opinion on a topic. Or because your personal experience is different from mine.

I also downvote a lot when posts on "technology" communities have nothing to do with (any new) technology and instead are just advertisements for some corporate product.

Way back in the Reddit days I used to upvote everything I interacted with and liked or thought was contributing to the conversation.

After the API drama I deleted my account, but I still browsed Reddit anonymously for a while before joining Lemmy. Obviously that meant I couldn't upvote anything. Unfortunately, I think those habits kinda transferred to my Lemmy account and these days I barely upvote anything and downvote a lot of things I disagree with.

I need to put in the effort to relearn both upvoting things in general and upvoting things I disagree with that are contributing to the conversation. It's just really annoying to have to do that for every post and comment