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> The upvote/downvote system turns every thread into a popularity contest. Agreed. I've been experimenting lately with ordering all threads by "old" by default
by Mordisquitos 6y ago
> The upvote/downvote system turns every thread into a popularity contest.
Agreed. I've been experimenting lately with ordering all threads by "old" by default and using CSS rules to hide comment points. It can make things much more interesting, as all you see are people talking in chronological order, and screw the fake point popularity contest. My next step might be hiding the age of each comment (or obfuscating it when <1 day), so I stop overfocusing on recent comments and stop thinking "I would like to reply to this, but the comment is 17 hours old so nevermind..."
- alickz 6y agoThat's a cool idea. I've also been put off from replying to older comments. The chronological thing is also interesting as it's a lot more like the forums of old, which I grew up on. Definitely a different experience from the algorithm heavy forums of today. Better of worse I can't say. Some subreddits hide the vote count for X amount of minutes, which I also like. It doesn't stop the algorithm but it helps prevent dogpiling on popular comments.
- fluidcruft 6y agoI find controversial often works better than old. Also, reddit has a comment sort preference, you can just set it. But reddit has like three preference interfaces on different domains so I can't remember where it is. ;)
- ryandrake 6y agoEvery voting system on the Internet, from discussion forums to product reviews seems to confuse popularity with quality, rewarding one as if it were the other. You can crowdsource popularity but not quality.