I usually gauge internet votes with relevant content. I don't take them too seriously, though. For more technical questions, it can help.
But of course there's the occasional hivemind that is irritating - like if someone is asking for help when grieving a lost one, the most upvoted comment is some dark joke meme.
Kinda sucks, because I occasionally come across really women I would otherwise pursue for a relationship. But then they have the same name as my sister or my mom - NOPE.
Guys, I don't necessarily agree with what OP said (I didn't downvote him, though), but why are you downvoting him for freaking answering the question?!! The question says "a trivial thing," (not "a reasonable thing") and OP answered with a trivial thing. Vote accordingly.
This is like downvoting unpopular opinions in a thread about unpopular opinions.
Yup, I wasn't trying to argue. Don't worry, friend - all good :)
Ok, in that case you're like me, then. It's not like I'm constantly chatting in my head. That sounds exhausting, actually. But my "word thoughts" closely resemble the words I'd say if someone told me "think aloud while you're doing things - you don't need to be as detailed." In your example, if I'm getting ready to bed, I wouldn't describe in my mind everything that I need to do. It would be more like "a'aight, time for bed" (do stuff, do more stuff), "where's my phone charger? ah! here." (do more stuff, then some more stuff) "...aaaaand done! Ooh, very nice!"
But anyway, the cool thing about the internet is that you can find your nice cozy niche and stay there.
That's how the 90s internet was. If the megacorps want to be in here, fine. I'll just stay in Lemmy. And when Lemmy starts sucking, I'll move to somewhere else.
That's a totally different topic.
I usually gauge internet votes with relevant content. I don't take them too seriously, though. For more technical questions, it can help.
But of course there's the occasional hivemind that is irritating - like if someone is asking for help when grieving a lost one, the most upvoted comment is some dark joke meme.