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> without fear of downvotes That this even exists is a fundamental part of the problem.
by timewizard 2y ago
> without fear of downvotes
That this even exists is a fundamental part of the problem.
- nunobrito 2y agoParticipants here are afraid of losing "points" and care about "winning" points. So you end up increasing the bias towards what gets you points rather than frank conversations based on a bigger array of facts than just the convenient facts. Corona made this painfully visible. With facebook and others only admitting 4 years later that they completely muffed the other side of the conversations with downvotings, shadowbanning, suspending accounts when those voices had a perfectly valid reason to argue and question the official narrative. The funny thing is that 99% of the users here will look with disdain to the burnings on public squares, but they behave exactly that way in a digital format today. We won't change that system since it is human nature, but at least it will be recorded in history that some humans we're trying to revert that situation.