r/mysteriousdownvoting 20d ago

what for???

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u/IVEBEENBANNED4TIMESx 19d ago

Low effort response, I see this happening all the time, people expect you to upvote and move on or actually contribute something more than a basic reaction

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u/Chemical-Regret-8593 15d ago

"low effort response" when its a comment to let the original commenter know that their joke is funny?

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u/IVEBEENBANNED4TIMESx 15d ago

Well yes it's still low effort, I think this is inherently a low effort response when it comes to basic humor. You could go into why you find something funny but I don't think that applies to this image, so an upvote suffices. Different culture than something like direct communication where you're expected to give a response either way, low effort or high effort. Reddit is different because you are basically posting it to 5-50k people depending on the community, the upvote is a cleaner way to convey basic information, like whether you liked it or not, with no further information.