• floatingcloudsoverdawnskies
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    1 year ago

    People can and will build botnets to artificially upvote their posts, and downvote opponents. It’s too easily abused.

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      1 year ago

      Ok so why keep upvotes? It’s the exact same problem. I’ve seen so much crap with shittons of upvotes, but one downvote and it’s suddenly an issue.

        • Ilikepornaddict@lemmynsfw.com
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          1 year ago

          Problem with that, is then you have to wade through every piece of trash that gets posted. The system isn’t perfect, but I can’t think of a genuine solution, so until there is one, this is what we have.

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            Eh, you could sort them higher if they have a ton of discussion under them. I think that could work pretty well. Maybe prioritize number of direct child comments over number of descendant comments (i.e. one long comment chain between two people shouldn’t push it to the top).

            If you think a topic is interesting, you’d comment under it. That says nothing about whether you like or dislike the comment, it just means that comment provoked some kind of response. That’s also not perfect because there are plenty of times where I don’t think I have anything valuable to add, but maybe it’s an interesting metric to try.