How do you feel about people upvoting their own posts?
I always thought it was a pretty smart idea on Reddit's side to have the posts and comments be automatically upvoted by their author, saving them the tough choice between playing fair or boosting their initial reach a little; and if you had particularly low self-esteem, this enabled you to reduce your own points by not one, but two, by self-downvoting.
Here, both upvotes and downvotes (or rather, favourites and reduces) start at 0, and you have the option to upvote your post manually (which I've already seen some people do) - which, while currently does not increase your reputation, does give you that small initial boost by making it look like people are starting to engage with your post.
What do you think - should the posts and comments be automatically upvoted by the author? If not, are you fine with people upvoting themselves, or do you feel it's unfair towards the ones that don't do it?
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Upvoting myself feels weird, but it feels like something I might have to do to help my posts gain traction, especially if everyone else is gonna do it. Reddit had it right, should just be the default.
I don't think it matters if users upvote their own stuff or not, however I don't think users should be given the choice. It should either be users always upvote their own stuff, or users can't upvote their own stuff.
I've made a poll so we can decide. We could then add the most popular suggestion to the Codeberg repo. I'm personally leaning towards no self upvoting.
Not fussed either way, if someone wants the little boost from the initial +1 they see from their own upvote, more power to them.
I'm happy starting at zero and seeing where the community takes me.
I liked reddit's approach. Self upvoting your posts if they aren't upvoted feels ridiculous. (ok, I have upvoted 1-2 of mine when trying to figure out how it works, but it still feels ridiculous)
So I would prefer if they are already pre-upvoted, or you should not be allowed to vote your posts/comments
I think Reddit's vote system was pretty near perfect, especially in the early days. You should upvote your own posts by default. I also prefer having a combined "score" rather than different scores for upvotes and downvotes.
Oh, and can we get a "sort by top" for comments? I miss that from Reddit.
I also prefer having a combined "score" rather than different scores for upvotes and downvotes.
I don't. A post that's been voted 100 times and down 95 times is completely different from a post that's been upvoted 5 times and not downvoted at all. That's good information to have, both as a poster and a reader.
Also, enough people use downvotes as an "I disagree" button that I don't think they ought to be counted (or should be counted minimally) when determining what content rises to the top, or we'll end up with another echo chamber.