Yeah. I copy pasted the wrong link. We cannot edit the URL?

This is a pet peeve of mine on Voat. We all like to think we're better than redditors in all aspects, but the community, before these past few invasions, aren't any better in this regard. The recent refugees has made the problem worse IMO.

Those were all first page results from a search on my initial one sentence reply. One I didn't include was more about the dramatic reduction in reading over just a few years. Kind of ironically, I removed that and a few others to make my comment shorter. Here's a different article by the same guy/group on the subject.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-users-read-on-the-web/ "Summary: They don't."

Either people are dimwittedly upvoating things without even reading the content, or you've just uncovered evidence of vote manipulation.

Trouble is, either one is equally as likely..

Thank you @Broc_Lia

While I agree with you in principle, it’s possible that the upvotes did come from people who read the article, as it was, at the time of posting, the top story on the front page.

I read it, but didn’t upvote, as I didn’t think it was very interesting.

Here it is, judge for yourselves:

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/11/the-migrant-crisis-brought-gang-rapes-to-germany-by-mostly-arabs-says-criminologist/

• How people read online: Why you won't finish this article.
• 13 Reading Stats Proving that Nobody Reads Your Content | Uberflip
• 59 Percent Of You Will Share This Article Without Even Reading It
• 55% of Visitors Read Your Articles For 15 Seconds or Less: Why We ...

Some relevant search result titles.

Well I finished reading, so now I'm going to upvoat you.

OP is indubitably a fag.

Well I think part of it is that you don't have to leave the title the same as what it actually is in the article.

"School bus crash fatality" is posted as "Jews allow black to drive and kill children for profit" and the circle jerk just keeps going....

That would be part of it I think. Just browse a few user profiles and see what their highest ranked comments are. Most would be 1-3 sentences and anything above 5 is rare. That's not to say that there isn't a quality to keeping it short and on point, but I too do feel lengthy and thoughtful posts are getting ignored which is a shame.

I don't have a solution.

We have mouth breathers here too, we're not special. It's a human trait if were honest with ourselves and we all do it from time to time.

I voraciously read the articles but to my shame it's only to tear them to pieces so that I can highlight what pieces of shit we have writing them. Rarely do I run across an article that's fair, balanced and non partisan but when I do I take the time to write the author and thank them.

THE DARK STATE: Discarded tea leaves, false positive drug tests

Ms. Yeager, I just wanted to thank for your article on the Harte family. So many in your profession are less than stellar in the honesty department and this was a welcomed refreshment. Thank you,

Mar 26, 2014, 9:28 AM was the last time that I know of where one was written. Sad isn't it.

New Study PROVES Liberals Are Smarter Than Conservatards!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFsxXMFgeiUYouTu

So what? You think everyone should upvote things just like you? Somehow it bothers you if they don't follow the protocol that you think they should follow? It bothers you enough that you decided to enlighten everyone with your eternal wisdom by posting a self-righteous PSA about how we should use our upvotes?

You're a bigger asshole than I am, an arrogant fuck too.

You should see v/science with it's anti Global warming shtick. The title says it's a hoax, then they link to an article saying the effects are worse than we predicted.

And Dates!

I usually check those. But got suckered into a “news” story from 4 years ago the other day.

NPC's are everywhere.

Makes me wonder what kind of clickbait on here is getting traction just because of titles without the content to back it up.

All kinds of silly bullshit.

Yes, people upvoat solely on title. Look how many upvoats this troll post got; https://voat.co/v/QRV/2734682