[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...
  • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If users are the problem and the platform encourages/enables them to behave like that, then the problem is the platform. Redditors act that way because the system incentivizes it.

    • shadowbert@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      What alternatives to votes would you propose to handle this better? Because I have no doubt the same thing will happen here too…

      It’s just how people work, especially when things get heated. That said, perhaps that’s a poor example as a heated discussion isn’t necessary a helpful/constructive one…

      • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I already said: upvotes only, remove downvotes, votes are public. If we don’t have downvotes public voting is not as important. But if we insist on keeping them, then yes it should be public

        We also need people to be more accepting of stricter/heavier-handed moderation, which is a hard sell.