[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
  • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    People who downvote more than upvote tend to be the ones who get in fights a lot and say snarky, inflammatory and negative things.

    Summed up my whole sense of humor in half a throwaway sentence ;-)

    Seriously though, interesting read, thank you kux… you can really feel the author’s frustration and yet I can’t help but feel that they are interested in a certain kind of idealistic online community. Reddit but with a really restrictive HOA where everyone has the exact same color mailbox.

    • kux@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      the author almost certainly has more experience in managing online communities than me (i have none) but it seems counterintuitive to see a dumb take, downvote and bother to leave an argumentative reply rather than just downvote and scroll past. downvotes in this case would defuse potential arguments rather than start them, but i’ll defer to the author and assume that’s not what happens

      • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        That was my take on it too. The vague sense that you’re just going to end up with nothing but circle-jerks if you implement all these suggestions. I could also just be whooshing an attempt a levity, something obvious to a seasoned community moderator.

        Hopefully my shitty attempts at socratic method rate a bit better then trolling, but I often doubt it :-)