Honestly I would have joined beehaw except I disagree with the no downvote policy. It forces you into a terrible tradeoff where either you upvote literally everything that isn’t bad, but then have no way of actually indicating truly good content, or else only upvote the truly good content, but then have no way of indicating bad content. You could always block users that post bad content, but that’s a super heavy handed approach with no real nuance, and doesn’t help improve the community.
That is true. But there is a hidden upside to it. On Reddit, people often used the downvote as an “I do not agree with your views” instead of “this comment or post is of good quality for discussion.”
Post the wrong view in an echo chambered subreddit and you are downvoted to Oblivion.
yep, and with what I see on Beehaw, I’m happy with how the moderation looks
Honestly I would have joined beehaw except I disagree with the no downvote policy. It forces you into a terrible tradeoff where either you upvote literally everything that isn’t bad, but then have no way of actually indicating truly good content, or else only upvote the truly good content, but then have no way of indicating bad content. You could always block users that post bad content, but that’s a super heavy handed approach with no real nuance, and doesn’t help improve the community.
That is true. But there is a hidden upside to it. On Reddit, people often used the downvote as an “I do not agree with your views” instead of “this comment or post is of good quality for discussion.”
Post the wrong view in an echo chambered subreddit and you are downvoted to Oblivion.