Comment on If a post gets a lot of downvotes should it be removed?

• dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here’s one of my ideas.

  Instead of all votes being equal I’d like to see voting weighted according to the votes you have issued a person in the past. Reflecting your respect/disrespect for that person.

  Thus, if person X is somebody that you have upvoted in the past, then when they vote on person Y, be they up or down votes, then those votes will count for more. And if you downvoted X then, when they vote on Y, those votes count for less.

  And those votes would propagate. IE your “opinion” of X would weight X’s votes. And it would also weight the votes of those whom X votes on.

  This would provide a pretty smart map of the value of the persons who you are talking to here. And then you filter or whatever.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I actually like that. It would also help with sockpuppets since, over time they would lose their value.

    There are some people who just downvote to downvote. They add no value but just want to be jerks.

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    • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are some people who just downvote to downvote. They add no value but just want to be jerks.

      I’ve heard that called the Chinese system. Anything that catches my attention gets downvoted. Any nail that sticks up gets hammered down. It’s genetic or something.

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      • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If the fediverse wants to survive, it has to spawn conversation. Otherwise, the numbers will never grow, and eventually, they will fizzle out. Echo chambers don’t last since people get bored easily when you can just macro the conversations.

        Reddit and Twitter work on the model of causing outrage with downvotes to spawn people to the site to generate ad revenue. They spend a lot of time and effort allowing the outrage. That is how they generate revenue. Yet, it creates a very toxic environment and one that shouldn’t be duplicated.

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