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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 229 points 2 years ago

Also, those upvotes and downvotes don't mean shit here

[-] MegadethRulz@lemmy.world 78 points 2 years ago

This is one thing I’ve been trying to figure out, I keep hearing this a lot. What exactly is different with the upvotes and downvotes? Do they not bury comments and posts or something? Serious question just trying to be informed

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

At least in the app I’m using there is no cumulative score for your upvotes/downvotes, so people don’t care about it.

Also comments don’t seem to get hidden due to downvotes thankfully. That was always a stupid system.

Tbh I wish that the comment voting system didn’t exist, or that to downvote you had to write a legit reason why, and everyone could see the votes and reasons. Shit reasons would take away your ability to downvote temporarily, extending further the more you do it. Too many people just use it as a disagree button.

[-] MegadethRulz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree with the dislike button thing. I’m using wefwef so it’s basically an Apollo clone so I can see my cumulative stats so I guess to me they mean something. I guess everywhere has its own system so it’s a side effect of decentralized community.

Edit: removed a word

[-] Cyyy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

but.. do most people actually care? i stopped caring about my cumulative amount after a specific amount (currently i'm at 319.056 Post-Karma, 91.827 comment karma). its just too much too care anymore for me. if it goes down or up.. i don't really feel it anymore or even care. i think the whole cumulative score of votes isn't really fullfilling anything purposefull.

how do you feel about such a cumulative score? does it triggers dopamine for you? for me it is "meh", so i'm interested in how other people experience this.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

It’s a tale as old as time:

you do something and number go up? Dopamine

you do something and number go down? nopeamine

[-] Cyyy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

if you get too much of something fun, it stops being fun after a while. same as with drugs.. after a while, the same dosis isn't having the same high anymore as the first time.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Very true. Moderation and responsible use with drugs is key.

Number go up will never stop feeling good hahaha

[-] MegadethRulz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Doesn’t matter much to me as far as high score type fulfillment fluff but as someone who likes stats and something to reference information about where I’m at is interesting at least and appreciated for the sake of being knowing. I always love video games that had a full stat page on the options like gta

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The only thing a bunch of karma did was let you join some private subs but they weren't really all that great usually

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