• Zarobi@aussie.zone
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    10 days ago

    I do sometimes wonder if people see the 0, and that biases their opinion or something. More often I get confused replies wondering why my comment seems broken though 😂

    I’m a retired programmer, so starting at 0 makes sense to me. I always thought it was weird that you “like” your own comments by default. I don’t like them, I’m neutral towards them.

    I used to do it on Reddit as well, but they disabled that feature. Unironically one of the reasons I left that place lol

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      Well I would defend your right to make your comments satisfy yourself with that nice round zero.

      In rebuttal I would argue that, if it means anything, an upvote is supposed to signify “this comment deserves to be here,” it contributes to the conversation.

      In an election, if you don’t want yourself to win enough to vote for yourself, you shouldn’t be running. You should just let the other person have it if you think they’d do better.

      But I’ll grant you that since it’s not an election, putting the comment out there is enough. And from what I can see yours all do add value.