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submitted 1 year ago by Zigabyte to c/technology

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Great writing on the current Reddit saga. The author put down in words a lot of things in my mind I couldn't find the right words.

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[–] honeyed_coffee@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you think of alternatives to voting, though? Sorting always requires some curating system that isn't random but I can't think of any that would be robust to group consensus

[–] RandomBit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think user voting in of itself is a problem. It’s the consequences of large negative voting that causes the real problems. In Reddit, a single unpopular comment on a popular subreddit could send a casual Redditor into negative karma which effectively shadowbans them from Reddit. As a result, you see people deleting their comments to stop the bleeding. Controversial opinions are punished severely.

[–] honeyed_coffee@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. I always assumed downvotes were used to weed out/shadow-ban troll accounts more than suppress unpopular opinions but I've never seen that measure reduce the number of trolls in the long run