upvote , także: updoot slang

Second, seeing an upvote does help users develop a positive opinion, especially if the user doesn't have much prior experience with the comment's author.

An "upvote" will increase the score and a "downvote" will decrease it.

Term glossary that works with an upvote/downvote fashion.

When a comment was initially created, Aral would immediately give it an upvote, a downvote or leave it alone.

Upvote/Downvote: These are essentially user ratings on a yak.

Sinan Aral, an associate professor of IT and marketing at MIT, saw that a quick upvote might have more sway than a quick downvote.

One of site's distinguishing features is the way it delivers content: Users score Reddit stories with an upvote or downvote, which affects where the stories appear on the website.

These include Alien Blue, Karma, Upvote, iReddit, and iPad-specific applications such as Reddzine and Biscuit.

This year, donations picked up as many redditors promised a few cents for every upvote they got, and then sought to outdo each other by upping the cash value or matching what others gave.

Out of the 101,281 comments made during the span of the study, the researchers randomly assigned 4,049 comments (four percent of the total) to the positive treatment group, and these comments were given a single upvote upon submission.

A long account of the process-written by Arthur Chu, one of the panel's participants-highlights how SXSW's Reddit-style upvote/downvote "panel picker" system was perfectly suited to GamerGate's preferred modes of attack: comment-thread spamming, slander, and threats.

Comments that were randomly selected to get an upvote were much more likely to also be upvoted by subsequent users; the first user to see a positively manipulated comment was 32 percent more likely to upvote it themselves as well, compared to a comment in the control group.