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I think the awards system from Reddit could work, just without it being monetized. The awards let you see how people feel about the comment, and it’s more than just good/bad, like/dislike.
Am I the only one who purged reddit accounts when it became too personal?
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I for one wish we could return to the lawlessness of old phpBB boards from the late 90s. Weren't no karma points to work any back then.
Those boards were rife with toxicity. You’d have secret rooms with people attacking a commenter behind their back. Created a very ‘with us or against us’ vibe. Then it would hit a boiling point and spill out as a public attack on a commenter. It made the bullying premeditated and targeted.
From this and other posts on this as well as comments I read and discussions that made me think about it, here's my suggestion.
- Upvotes and downvotes but lemmy allows people to only see upvotes in their client if they wish to (be it because they don't like the "negativity" of downvotes or because they're not very good at emotionally dealing with seeing their own comments downvoted)
- Some kind of summary of upvotes/downvotes a user got on his or her posts, per forum and only if enabled in that forum. The objective being to as much as possive avoid the gamification side of karma and its side effects (i.e. people taking it in as a "score" which leads to things like karma farming) whilst preserving the positive side of it as a measure of domain expertise or at least willingness to positivelly participate in domain specific forums.
Thats just like 9gag, reddit, and the king youtube bs. If someone sees downvotes as negativity, it is already to late for him on a normal platform. A downvote should be something the author should see and know about. And other users should see that too. As it is a good content filter against clickbaity/scammer or just chatgpt answers.
Whilst I personally agree with you that it's a good idea for an author to see both negative and positive feedback, I don't see what's the problem to allow the "criticism sensitive" types to protect themselves from criticism by toggling and option in their client which makes downvotes not visible to them (but it does nothing for others).
For clarity, my suggestion is not to allow people to disable downvotes, it's to allow them to not see downvotes in their own client - downvotes are still there and everybody else who hasn't "disabled downvote display" on their clients can still see them.
Think of it as a social interaction equivalent of installing ramps for people with disabilities on wheel chairs: nobody else is force to use the ramps but those who need them have them.
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This may be a dumb Idee so please go ahead and tell me if it is. It seem ppl use it to know who to block in advance. What if you get a red name or some kind of info on the profile if the account has been blocked by other users and it is above 10 or 20 blocks? Would that help? That would suck for that account because it will forever be the ass hole account. But at least no one would really want to farm that except the trolls who want ppl to know they are trolls.
I like how it is now tho. It is good when the mods are responsible first and foremost instead of a system.
I like that way of thinking, however, people could exploit that. Imagine you are in a chat about colour blue, then you say colour red is better. You get downvoted for having an opinion different from others. That would make people follow the hive-mind so their colour doesn’t turn red
wait, are you saying ppl would block the person with a different opinion so their account 's name turns red (essentially bulling) so it will make other ppl block that person too even tho the person said something like "red is my favorite color!"?... ppl are scary. I guess we shouldn't have a system then because we can't have nice things :(
User scores are bad. Up/downvotes are bad.
The whole point of them was to create a flow of content with minimum human intervention. That’s a huge goal and The Dream if you’re making money off social media. If you’re not making money off social media then it’s not doing you any good.
Abolish karma, abolish comment and post scores.
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I think it would be better to have like a currency system where posts that are kept alive the longest trigger points, not just how many people upvote them. But then, you should be able to use those points to do something instead of hoarding them like a dragon's treasure or maybe turn them in to awards. If OTHER people give you awards, that's what you should have on display, not just how many upvotes you had. This would also give you more points for helping smaller communities create meaningful content instead of what's popular.
A blockchain might be fun as long as there is no way of converting it into money. Like just a ledger of how much "karma" everyone gets
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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