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> We could fix social media tomorrow if we disabled resharing/retweeting/whatever and removed likes What about votes? How are upvotes different from likes? It'

• vorpalhex 5y ago
  So HN's system is unique since only you can see your "score", and a post maxes out at -4. I think it works well since you can derive some info about how useful a post is, and downvotes are rare. It can still lead to people trying to maximize score instead of content. With a system like reddit which is mostly visible, brigading and using downvotes as a weapon is much much more prevalent and probably could do with either tweaking or removal. There is some feedback you want from votes, which is something like the upvote to downvote ratio as a measure of controversy for a given post.
  • amadeuspagel 5y ago
    > So HN's system is unique since only you can see your "score" That's true for individual comments, but there's a total karma score that everyone can see. And even for individual comments you can see when they're downvoted. > and a post maxes out at -4. A tweet maxes out at 0. You can't have negative likes. > It can still lead to people trying to maximize score instead of content. Sure. You have that tradeoff in any system. If you don't have anything that is in some sense a "score" at all, people might not particpate at all, or not put any effort into it, if you do have a score then people might try to maximize it in ways you don't like.