• rglullis@communick.news
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    3 months ago

    environment more hostile to discussion and honest exchange.

    “Voting” and “discussion” are separate things. The old forums did not have voting but still had polarization, personal attacks, hellthreads, etc.

    The problem is that Reddit/Facebook turned “voting” from a tool meant to measure “quality” (e.g, this post is relevant to the community, this comment does not add to the discussion) into a tool to measure “popularity” (I agree with this, so I vote up. I don’t like this, so I downvote).

    Either get rid of voting altogether, or let’s bring back a culture where “votes” are meant to signal quality.

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      2 months ago

      Redditors did that, rather than reddit I’d argue. Still the same result of becoming a far less useful heuristic though.

      Not really sure how to “fix” a system like that, which depends on the masses to do something correctly. They… don’t.