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For my money, downvoting is entirely necessary. You know how a comment like "R u srs? Luv this vid!" is normal on Youtube? I want users to downvote the living h
by fivedogit 12y ago
For my money, downvoting is entirely necessary. You know how a comment like "R u srs? Luv this vid!" is normal on Youtube? I want users to downvote the living hell out of that comment. I want the WORDS community to hold each other to a much higher standard.
Downvotes seem like the only way to actually maintain order.
- underrated 12y agoThere's nothing disorderly or actively harmful about that comment. It just adds little value compared to the search space of all possible comments. So it seems semantically more sound to simply withhold upvotes from it, rather than punishing it with downvotes.
- fivedogit 12y agoLet's say a comment on one site gets 100 upvotes and no downvotes. On another site, another comment gets 10 upvotes and no downvotes. Was the first more popular, or just more trafficked? You need the ratio of up-to-down to determine a comment's true usefulness.
- underrated 12y agoYou can't compare upvote numbers (or even upvote/downvote ratios) meaningfully between sites, because their communities aren't the same. Your proposed scenario tells us nothing beyond pure numbers -- 100 people voted on one, 10 on the other. You can't say anything comparative. You certainly can't speak to strength of intent.