• itsathursday@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Used by people when giving the votes I think they mean, not by the sorting logic to view posts and comments. Eg. Agree = upvote, disagree = downvote when in reality, it should be known that upvote = more visibility, downvote = less visibility.

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      21 days ago

      yup, this. It can be “controversial” according to the algo but it’s just a guy being downvoted because they are unpopular, for example