Reports should not downrank posts. It should notify moderators. Moderators can decide to add a mod comment, hide the comment, delete the comment, message the commenter etc. There can be tools under moderators control to automate this.

I do agree if it were not a single button the likelihood would be much further less. I would imagine ideally one tap to open a modal window and then one tap between 'This is spam', 'This is harassment' or type in Other : []. So maybe just moving the Create Report to where downvote button now is worth trying.

There is a fundamental difference between YouTube and Lemmy though - community members and community moderators. I think having a signal from dislike is much less needed because of it. However, I do think it would be nice (not impactful at the current size of community) to have a viewcount of some sort.

From a user interface perspective, I think it's far less likely people will report spam than downvote when they do not like something. I suppose we both are only hypothesising here though.

I don't see offsetting as a good feature. It just seems to drive people into tribalistic up/down wars. What's the point of users seeing the net votes?

I suppose it makes sense if the change is lemmy-wide

I think it's better to have a button to report spam, harassment, etc , rather than using downvote. Downvote is too ambiguous.

Yeah, I suppose the Democratic Party wouldn't see the star in the table flipper

If Trump can bully his way to be president, I'm sure flipping tables as such is completely inconsequential

Yep, they are not portable, every app should come bundled with its own interpreter. As to why, I think historically it didn't target production grade application development.

Didn't they already back down? https://www.sae.org/news/2023/03/european-ice-ban

Maybe they didn't want to tarnish the copilot brand with risky privacy invasion

Career advice for this generation is get wealthy parents

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