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Do you upvote your own posts and comments? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Wit@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Since on most fediverse instances you don't automatically upvote your own comment, do you do it manually? What's considered "proper etiquette"? Because on Reddit your stuff is self-upvoted automatically, while in YT comment sections comments with 1 like sometimes get called out for liking their own comment. Do we have an established standard here yet, and if not what are your thoughts on it?

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[–] Prouvaire@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't upvote or boost anything I create (if I have it would have been by accident or as a test) - it feels weird to do so.

There is an argument for threads/comments to start with 1 upvote, ala reddit, in order to "reward" people for contributing by adding to their rep, even if no other people upvote them further. On the other hand, if for instance total rep were to be capped (there's been some discussion of doing this as it has various benefits), and that cap is relatively low, then maybe all contributions should start off at 0 in order to prevent people from maximising their karma by spamming.

[–] savedr@forum.fail 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and like, if all you have to do is post a bunch with auto upvotes on to get rep, is that rep real? Isn't it a lot more real if other people have upvoted your stuff on purpose, not you? As valuable as that even is anyway