What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I’m not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?

I never vote up or down on here in the same manner that I never click Like on any social media sites either, I don’t see what the intent behind it is.

  • lysistrata@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Upvoting a post releases the Good Chemicals in the brain. You do this when you would like the person who made this contribution to do more of that.

    Downvoting, in turn, produces the Bad CHemicals. The downvote button was famously invented to replace the previous disincentivizing mehchanism, Hammers.