If later text shows that my initial reading was incorrect due to missing context or because I misread their starting point, yeah. For example, if something starts off sounding positive but context shows it is actually a dogwhistle I had not come across before I will go back and correct my votes. It rarely takes even a minute to fix a dozen or so in a chain.
It isn’t so much that I think my individual votes matter, but because I don’t like knowing I gave a positive interactions with that thing.
Same thing if I read something as a negative and find out I was wrong, gonna flip those to upvotes!
If context is really needed to identify something as a dogwhistle, isn’t it already an ineffective utility? I’m not doubting you at all–I know next to nothing about any honest dogwhistles, but I’m always curious to know how people avoid the feeling that of paranoia in these instances–how can you be positive you aren’t just yielding to a fear of some sort?
Dogwhistles are for the in group to show solidarity. Those outside not recognizing the dogwhistle or having a hard time proving it is a dogwhistle is the entire purpose.
I hear you …
Sometimes. I might get halfway through the comments and see that someone has shared something from their post history that paints them in a different light.
Or if they add an edit whining about downvotes
Edit: DOWNVOTES? REALLY? For speaking the objective truth?
I upvoted this assuming the edit was humor, don’t you dare prove me wrong!
Le thanks Le kind le stranger. Many updoots to you and your clan, m’trilby
Ah a fellow haberdasher #tips-lady-fedora
I don’t often change upvotes. Sometimes I will go back and upvote things after I better understood the poster’s point.
Downvotes tho … I review my downvotes at lemvotes.org. I haven’t changed many, but I do reconsider them.
If I think the content is a net positive for Lemmy you get a upvote, even if I disagree, even if I don’t like you.
So that means even if someone later reveals themselves to be an asshat, they are still adding to Lemmy’s ecosystem and get to keep their upvotes.
Update: but I’m not a saint, if someone is downvoting me I’ll downvote them right back
My up/down votes gets as much attention as their importance warrants. None at all.
brb I’m just going to take a few minutes to go through my records and see if any of my recent upvotes need revising in light of your latest comment.
Rarely.
Most likely reason is to upvote a contrarian reply to my own comment that I was too salty about to upvote in the moment.
I already have a pretty good sense of bad faith arguments, having been online for far too long.
Idk, it feels a lot of conversation about difficult to grasp topics are followed by a lot of Dunning-Kruger comments, even here on lemmy. Sometimes it’s about related topics that a person know, so their comments seems reasonable, but after a search or a harder look, I stop upvoting or I can even downvote their comment, but sometimes I just ignore if I don’t even remember the original conversation.
Who cares that much
I guess both of us
No because when I upvote someone it usually means I agree with their point. Disagreeing later doesn’t change the initial agreement.
Even if it was manipulative or disingenuous?
If I agree with their point, again, I don’t care if I later find reasons or points to disagree on something different. It will not make me waste my time adjusting upvotes. Common ground is very important.
