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Is there anyway to decrease the opacity? Knowing when a tug of war is happening vs when a story is just not important/not popular is compelling/valuable/meaning

• danso 11y ago
  That might even cause more of a tug of war, tbh...I don't feel transparency would really help in these cases, though I say that only because in my anecdotal survivor-bias-affected short-term memory, just as many controversial social issues posts are allowed to stay up on top as are flagkilled. And I don't think there's an "ideal" balance, in that everyone has a different ideal balance. But anything that makes it obvious that a flamewar is going on would just exacerbate it. Seems to be the case with Reddit. For me, my own "flag" is if a post has as many comments as upvotes...in fact, I assumed that this was something that would auto-downmod a front page submission.
  • Steko 11y ago
    Transparency would show how people are using the feature and we could have an honest discussion about the appropriateness based on that. Instead we have to draw our own conclusions which incentivizes a cynical spiral that "the other guys are abusing it so I should too".