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?

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      A quick js + db change boom done.

      But it may confuse users depending on the implementation. And federation would not be fun…

        • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          21 hours ago

          JavaScript. Attach a click handler event to the article link, save a cookie with the post id in it.

            • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              20 hours ago

              Federation, it’s magic.

              But yeah, this means Lemmy comments would never be boosted or highlighted because it wouldn’t be federating the new data. Bit of a problem!

              • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
                8·
                20 hours ago

                Wait, you’re going to federate whether a user clicked on a link between instances?

                That seems kinda too far. I would not want other instances to know what I have or have not clicked. That’s a level of surveillance I’m not comfortable with and I fear how that data might be abused.

                Tbh I wouldn’t even want my own instance to track what I click