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Of course reddit is flawed. Anyone that has spent time on Slashdot or Advogato could have told you the whole premise of up/down voting is beyond silly. No, th
by jhmarten 12y ago
Of course reddit is flawed. Anyone that has spent time on Slashdot or Advogato could have told you the whole premise of up/down voting is beyond silly.
No, the utility of up/down votes is in retention. It's nothing more than a Skinner box that people check in on to see if they are winning or losing. Which is how Digg and Reddit both became huge in a short amount of time.
- baby 12y ago> the whole premise of up/down voting is beyond silly It's not silly when you have a community this size. It might be flawed but it's one of the less flawed system.
- icebraining 12y agoDo you know Slashdot's system? jhmarten wasn't criticizing community-based moderation, only the simplistic model of up/down voting, when compared to ones which get users to specify why they're voting.
- baby 12y agoI'm just a lurker so I didn't know their system. They have an extremely small community compared to reddit though, that was my point.
- icebraining 12y agoCompared to Reddit as a whole, yes, but that's because Reddit is a collection of disparate subreddits, not a single common area. Slashdot had 5.5 million users in its heyday, which is on the same order of magnitude of the biggest subreddits.
- belorn 12y agoThe system up/down replaced two worse system, being "they who post most get seen the most" and "moderators do and decide everything". What ever system that will replace up/down voting has to do better than the ones it will replace.