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voting

On reddit your vote means, "I found this interesting," not "This should go on the front page."

Once registered, you can vote all links on reddit up or down based on whether you liked or disliked them. Your votes train a filter, so vote up links you liked and vote down links you disliked. Our hope is that instead of just reading a list of links the community thinks should be on the front page, you'll also be reading a list personalized for you (filtered for quality by your fellow redditors, but filtered for relevance by you). Let reddit know if it's hot [selected up arrow] or cold [selected down arrow]. Find these personalized links in your recommended section.

below is an example of a typical reddit submission:

Clever title for a great submission (topleveldomain.com)
183 points posted 4 hours ago by username 24 comments save share hide

Upon voting, the highlighted score will have changed +1 or -1 depending on your vote up or down, respectively. Regardless of individual karmas, all votes affect submission scores equally.

As a general rule, vote up what you liked (and want to see more of) and vote down what you disliked (and don't want to see similar things in the future) -- there's really not much else to it. The community is pretty vigilant about voting down submissions that shamelessly linkjack original sources (don't say that we didn't warn you).