re: #5 Locker

Newbie question of the night.

Why do you up or down ding someone?

Not really fair of me to ask without answering so I’ll start. I haven’t done a ton of this but so far it breaks down like this.

Up
Funny or clever
Interesting insight
Honest opinions
True personal experience

Down
Personal attack
Name calling
Hate type of stuff

re: #12 Sharmuta

Everyone has their own criteria.

re: #14 Noam Sayin’

You missed a couple.

You missed more than a couple. Everybody has their own criteria all right; some are very personalized to each person, reasons the outside world will never know. One major cateogory you left out is: variations on the theme of social positioning. People upding/downding so as to identify with a social group, or to please a spectator or group of spectators; or simply because their friends did so; or to try to earn someone’s respect; and so on.

Definitely fodder for a PhD in sociology.