instead of voting on whether or not it’s unpopular and thus appropriate as a post.
That’s because it’s absurdly counter-intuitive. Maybe that was the original intention, but it was doomed to always have this problem. Literally: we vote literally the opposite you vote everywhere else.
But this brings up my favorite pet peeve about Lemmy: the authors wasted a perfect opportunity to fix one of the biggest problems with Reddit, which Reddit kinda eventually fixed with awards, except they monotonized it. If Lemmy had the ability to do emoji responses like github, it’d go a long way to solving the problem that voting has a dual-purpose – and contradictory – use: to elevate as “interesting,” and to demonstrate approval. And now behavior is entrenched.
But you can, usually, vote based purely on exposure to the topic
You lost me. You’re suggesting that you vote based strictly on personal opinion, I think?
Since I have seen people order (or try to order) milk with a wide range of cuisines
I live in the Midwest, close to Wisconsin. If you don’t, you might be surprised at the wide variety of things Midwesterners will put cheese curds in.
Oh! I lived through, and absolutely adore what happened in Japan with dairy. At one time, cheese was (as I understood it) to be fairly widely regarded as being disgusting. On a trip to Singapore a while ago, I discovered the Tokyo Milk Cheese Factory, which made ice cream in cheese flavors. And not, like, mascarpone; no, full on Gouda and Roquefort! It is hilarious! I’ve recently seen some similar offerings in the States, but I love that it was the Japanese that went from “hate” to “bizarre combinations even Americans would shy from.”
That’s because it’s absurdly counter-intuitive. Maybe that was the original intention, but it was doomed to always have this problem. Literally: we vote literally the opposite you vote everywhere else.
But this brings up my favorite pet peeve about Lemmy: the authors wasted a perfect opportunity to fix one of the biggest problems with Reddit, which Reddit kinda eventually fixed with awards, except they monotonized it. If Lemmy had the ability to do emoji responses like github, it’d go a long way to solving the problem that voting has a dual-purpose – and contradictory – use: to elevate as “interesting,” and to demonstrate approval. And now behavior is entrenched.
You lost me. You’re suggesting that you vote based strictly on personal opinion, I think?
I live in the Midwest, close to Wisconsin. If you don’t, you might be surprised at the wide variety of things Midwesterners will put cheese curds in.
Oh! I lived through, and absolutely adore what happened in Japan with dairy. At one time, cheese was (as I understood it) to be fairly widely regarded as being disgusting. On a trip to Singapore a while ago, I discovered the Tokyo Milk Cheese Factory, which made ice cream in cheese flavors. And not, like, mascarpone; no, full on Gouda and Roquefort! It is hilarious! I’ve recently seen some similar offerings in the States, but I love that it was the Japanese that went from “hate” to “bizarre combinations even Americans would shy from.”