• Stoneykins@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I mean, generally getting downvoted in an argument is a matter of course, at least until people who you aren’t arguing with chime in.

    Also a lot of what you are saying doesn’t really make sense to me? I feel like I’m not sure we agree what we disagree about.

    Honestly the shit I got downvoted the most for was just standing up for trans people, reddit is full of transphobes.

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      1 year ago

      You really don’t seem to understand the mechanics of link aggregators and their comment sections. The votes are for curating content and downvoting posts that are not relevant or are poor quality is the entire point of the system. If you remove the ability to downvote bad content, you degrade the content for all the users. This is exactly why YouTube removing the dislike counter was an issue.

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        1 year ago

        You already said the youtube thing.

        Upvoting posts that are relevant or good quality and ignoring the rest does work though. There are several instances right now where it is working.

        It works perfectly fine as a content curation method. I have no way to prove this for this, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it works better.

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          1 year ago

          You can’t ignore bad posts when they get inflated ranking because no one can downvote them off the front page lol.

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            1 year ago

            They never are on the front page. Idk why you don’t get this. If I sort by new I see them but only then. If I did see a post on the front page that I don’t like, obviously it is just a matter of taste. It doesn’t bother me that I can’t downvote it.

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              1 year ago

              You really don’t understand how removing the recourse from users to downvote bad content is a negative to any link agregator? Do you just never go to small subs and see less than 5 posts from the last week and not understand that someone could just flood those communities with poor content and the only recourse is for mods to ban that user who could have not even violated their rules? This is to say nothing of how bad nitch communities are already on Lemmy, if we remove the users ability to group moderate it would be even worse.

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                1 year ago

                If I was moderating a small community and someone flooded it with unwanted content, I would consider that spam, which I would have against the rules.

                So it would be a perfectly reasonable ban for an explicit rules violation.

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                  1 year ago

                  It’s not spam, it’s content within the rules, it just bad. That’s the situation we’re trying to avoid so that bad content is seen by the least amount. Of users. When you can’t downvote bad content, the moderators have to remove the content so we have just pushed more work onto moderators. Congratulations.

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                    1 year ago

                    Lots of bad content posted excessively is spam. I refuse to let you handwave that, that is what spam is. But I’d like to be done here, I’m not enjoying this back and forth. You keep whatever opinion you want.