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I think downvoting should remain available but more strongly dis-incentivized, maybe for instance by rationing the number of downvotes that one user can issue i
by simias 6y ago
I think downvoting should remain available but more strongly dis-incentivized, maybe for instance by rationing the number of downvotes that one user can issue in a day.
But in the end I don't know if it'll make much of a difference, a bad community will always manage to push bad content to the top, a good one will manage to reward insightful content. Technical solutions can only go so far to fix what is essentially a social problem.
- DarthGhandi 6y agoDownvotes should cost the user their own points. People are bizarrely attached to their magical internet points and such consequences would perhaps have most think twice before flippantly greying out a comment they only read the first sentence of. With the rampant vote inflation I think the limits should be at least quadrupled.
- evgen 6y agoThat is how you kill a site. It should be easier to remove bad content than to create more crap. The table is already tilted towards those creating misinformation and spam, making it more costly to prune this is an incredibly bad idea.
- non-entity 6y agoBad content can be removed by flagging.
- wolco 6y agoThen more mods will need to be hired because no one will waste a downvote on spam. I would save mine for the next spaces vs tabs thread.
- christkv 6y agoJust charge karma points for down voting. That will make people think twice
- searchableguy 6y agoDepends on how many points. It should scale with the amount of points the user has. A percentage based scheme seems fine to me. 0.1% your points for every downvote.
- smichel17 6y agoI'd be okay with 1%. I really don't downvote much.
- pjc50 6y agoI'm not sure I'd like to spend six hundred points dealing with a single idiot; I'd have to develop a better battery of cut-and-paste denouncements instead. I'm not sure this would improve the overall signal-to-noise ratio.
- waffle_ss 6y agoDownvotes are already rate limited. I know because I run out of them within 10 minutes of browsing the site nowadays. I couldn’t disagree with you more, by the way. The amount of throwaway comments, puns, etc. are out of control. We need stronger downvoting, or weakened upvoting for new users.
- simias 6y agoI prefer upvoting good comments to downvoting mediocre ones. I keep my downvotes for trolls/insults and reddit-tier "meme" comments for which I apparently have a higher tolerance threshold than you because I don't find them all that common. Maybe we just tend to read different stories though.