I don't think you'd search discord for "is the earth flat". Existing search engines have that as a solved problem, fact based queries are low hanging fruit for

I don't think you'd search discord for "is the earth flat". Existing search engines have that as a solved problem, fact based queries are low hanging fruit for them. You'd search it for opinion content and I think for that it'd be up to you to discern the quality the same way it works when you stumble on a reddit post with relevant content but since it's a niche question you don't have a flood of up votes to legitimize it which is how a lot of my reddit like searches go. I've found perfectly valid answers to questions I have on reddit posts that have no or few < 5 upvotes, something like 60% of the time I wind up on a reddit post. So to bring it back to discord maybe positive emojis are a signal in that case. In the case of cars to continue my example, If I see a discord message in a search that is like "I own a 2021 Toyota Corolla Hybrid and I have x y z concerns with it." it's an opinion you can choose to value based on ownership. But I think asking a search engine, even a search engine like google, to make a value judgement on an opinion is asking a lot and not something they really should do. A user has to have some culpability in the information they consume. It'd be pretty trivial to negatively downrank though after a user interacts with a result and finds it lacking. There are proxies for quality of opinion but I think even now with google it's largely up to us as users to discern that especially on places like reddit which are ranked highly by google because it's reddit but don't qualify anything beyond that except in all but the most crowded of subreddits.