Upvote

Created by Unknown User (mtr7) on Apr 28, 2015

Yik Yak has an anonymous voting system for their anonymous posts.  You can either positively vote with an "upvote" or negatively vote with a "downvote".  "I was so surprised when I saw that I got 120 upvotes on my yak, I was drunk when I wrote it!".  Romig, S-Z, 2015.

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Upvote is a term used on Yik Yak, a popular anonymous social media app widely used among students at SUNY Geneseo. An upvote refers to a positive tally given to a post, boosting its visibility and status on the feed. Students could either upvote or downvote anonymously, creating a kind of digital applause or disapproval for content that ranged from clever jokes about the Sturges steps to drunken confessions from nights out on Court Street.

In a study done to determine if students know this word, about 83.3% of students know this word and can define it. About 8.3% were familiar with the word but could not define it. 8.3% of students did not know the word at all.