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I just can't tolerate a site where people upvote you based on where you work and not based on the content of your answer. A recent thread on using "bullets" to
by mnicole 14y ago
I just can't tolerate a site where people upvote you based on where you work and not based on the content of your answer. A recent thread on using "bullets" to separate text elements on a single line wherein a Facebook employee responded by saying "I stole it from Flickr" had more upvotes by far when it was put in the newsletter than a post below it highlighting (with images and historical references) that we've been using dots-as-spaces since we were writing on stone tablets really drove this home for me.
- incision 14y agoThat's exactly the kind of thing I feared upon hearing of Quora's focus on real names back when they launched. I expect the bubbling up of such things (stuff that is somehow "interesting", but not useful) is a problem for the majority of social sites. I tend to think the like button / upvote concept is just busted and largely to blame, but I certainly don't know how to solve or supplant it.