It is objectively a lot more male than Reddit or other social media. Reddit has many issues, but lack of women is not one of them.

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    2 months ago

    Yeet - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yeet

    Okay, thanks. I can never seem to remember it, maybe because it feels so unnatural. Maybe it would help if I knew where it came from, though. *shrug*

    Pragmatically, they’ve end up being more a social proof / opinion suppression / brigading tool.

    That seems exceptionally pessimistic to me, but maybe you have more insight in to all that than I do. Personally I think multiple things can be true about upvotes / downvotes, some useful, some harmful perhaps.

    In any case, there is no debate that upvotes are useful and valuable to me when it comes to posting and commenting.