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>And I want it to have all of the standard functionality -- hierarchical comments (like HN and Reddit), upvoting and downvoting, auto-collapsing tangential thre
by andrepd 3y ago
>And I want it to have all of the standard functionality -- hierarchical comments (like HN and Reddit), upvoting and downvoting, auto-collapsing tangential threads with less votes (like Reddit), giving more weight to users who are consistently upvoted, etc.
This is what I most certainly would not want to see. The prioritisation of "upvoted" content and comments is the number one source of all kinds of perverse problems with modern social media (echo chambers, manipulation, incentivisation of simplistic or short-form content, promoting base anger and outrage, etc)
- mbreese 3y ago> The prioritisation of "upvoted" content and comments is the number one source of all kinds of perverse problems with modern social media I (unsurprisingly) like the HN method… the public can’t see the exact number of votes for a comment, but the comments are still ordered by number of votes. And comments with negative votes are styled differently, but you don’t know exactly what the vote totals are. Yes, you can still have echo chambers and manipulation, but it’s more difficult to effectively manipulate. (At least without a lot of external coordination, in which case the site is already fighting a losing battle).