I treat social media as pure discussion platform to advance understanding or to know new stuff.
There had been something on my mind lately which I wanted to discuss as a way to improve the upvotes relevance to the quality of the post and the amount of discussion.
Let’s apply quality control on upvotes, so any post can get only 20 upvotes till it gets a specific amount of comments then the limit could be pumped up to 40 upvotes till it gets more comments, etc…
Why I am bringing this up, you might ask? The linked post by me is the peek proof of my point.
It’s pretty clear no one read the linked article and despite that, the post is the top post in the technology community. There is no comments discussing directly the story and from the face of it, There does not seem to be any indicator that any one benefited from this.
I skimmed over the story and shared it in the hopes to basically learn new stuff, get relevant recommendations or basically read some direct discussions.
In any way, I think my described system to handle upvotes would highly improve Lemmy, taking into consideration that numbers used are only for demonstration and the used numbers will need to be figured out separately.
Should this system be implemented into Lemmy?
I dont think this should be implemented because I dont see how that would improve anything. I think that people are burnt out right now with what’s going on in the world and it reflects in the comments. Compare comments now with this time last year and the energy is very different.
I read a lot of the articles that are posted and so many are complete garbage and it makes me not care about reading the article. Like do I really care about some idiot journalists opinion on how ai can’t answer how many Rs in strawberry or do I just want to shit on ai in the comments.
Laudable honesty. The problem is that other people have to read the shit.
My point is there is nothing to read. Some of the articles posted are so low quality they add nothing more than the headline. But they are still worth commenting on became people want to talk about the topic generally