• Cris@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Yeah, that’s kind of the nature of communication I think, and ultimately votes are a form of communication :/

    If people understand them to mean agreement or disagreement, that’s the message they’ll recieve regardless of whether it was the message that you were trying to send.

    I guess if I wanna convey I appreciate someone’s contribution even though I don’t share their perspective I can always leave a comment; that seems like something I’d appreciate seeing in my inbox so maybe it’s worthwhile for me to make that a habit

    • HereIAm@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Yeah that’s something I do sometimes as well. I usually just don’t vote on a comment as a third option for when I disagree with them, but don’t want to punish having a different viewpoint ^^