Voting: Best Practices

blanketNTea
2018-08-29T22:56:28Z

I've seen some discussion of what voting should be used for here on tildes.

Here are the things I try to follow when voting on comment:

Does it have a reputable looking source ( I open the source and check it out)?

Does it have new information?

Is this a comment whose votes are acting as a form of population polling?

Does it contain a well thought out point/ multiple paragraphs?

Here are the things I try to follow when voting on a post:

Is it important for other people to see?

Is it reputable?

Does it contribute to the greater tildes dialogue?

I try to make sure it takes more than one of these for me to vote on a comment or page but that certainly isn't always the case. The one thing I try to stay away from is from voting just because I liked the title or because I agreed with an easy 1-3 sentence opinion unless I think that opinion is really important.

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