Hi i want to explore the various way we can highlight content. Currently we use vote to show our approval, discontent…and we can couple it with a bot for moderation. Or hide post below a certain score…

Some instance completly removed downvote as beehaw. Piefed is experimenting private vote. On other fediverse software, there is no downvote and we use emojis to express our feelings.

You also have website as https://slashdot.or/ where you can tell that comment was insightfull or a troll, or funny…

There is also also website that compare software or video as https://tournesol.app/

  • Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
  • Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
  • What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?
  • What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?
  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I like the downvotes disabled model.

    It also means that the “active” sort algorithm doesn’t promote posts that get lots of “downvotes” -> engagement

    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      That also means you can’t downvote just wrong information anymore. Look at YouTube, which disabled down votes and nothing got better. And their votes weren’t even public.

      I think that’s a terrible idea.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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        12 hours ago

        you can’t downvote just wrong information anymore.

        If “wrong information” can be properly defined, then either you challenge it (by responding, calling it out) or by reporting it. Downvoting it just because it you think it is not appropriate is a recipe for creating echo chambers.

        • last_philosopher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 hours ago

          The problem then is that by responding, you’re engaging with it which typically helps it spread in the algorithms*. Ideally there should be multiple downvote options - maybe separate it out as “misinformation” vs “bad opinion” or something. Removing downvotes and banning users who disagree is the typical cult strategy (recall the classic cult sub, r/thedonald, was notorious for this). If you’re worried about downvotes being used to silence people, maybe another way to mitigate that would be a “sort by downvoted” option so that being downvoted a lot could actually put you at the top of at least that feed.

          *On Lemmy, notice the following:

          Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time