I only surround myself with talented, smart and funny people so when I upvote them, it means I upvote good content. But I’m of course only talking for my behalf, most people might not be as fortune to have such awesome friends.
What comes to ”old fashion social media behavior”, I don’t think there is such a thing, there is just human behavior. And we motherfuckers are both very simple, and very complicated.
Obviously I didnt mean on the behalf of you. Behaviours mostly shaped by the environment so how we determine the environment will effect the previous. Thats why I narrowed the subject cause the subject is about upvoting as I remember. Old fashion social media term describes that which is the 'environment'. That environment shaped people's behaviour depending on its conditions and structure. And it was not much different than our social circle we live in real life. In that atmosphere we favour our friends and family without judging the situations or consequences. We didnt and dont give much attention to the content.
But now we have a slightly different environment and we should not behave as we did before if we want to benefit from the new one. Simple as it is.