Do you rarely vote on anything at all?
Do you upvote when something is interesting but rarely downvote? Do you downvote when something isn’t interesting but rarely upvote?
Do you vote to signal agreement or disagreement?
Do you vote to encourage insightful replies regardless whether you agree or not?
I rarely interact with the voting system on sites, aside from the occasional missclick, that is. While I think it can be useful when searching for answers or tutorials, especially on topics you’re not familiar with and can’t judge competence vs BS, I think in more social spaces it leads to both echo chambers and karma farming, and it feeds social media addiction by giving you little validations for every upvote you receive.
I also think it prevents people from having more meaningful interactions. Rather than replying with 'This was insightful", “I disagree because…” or “that was really funny” You just make a number go up or down.
I sympathize with their goals too, but their strategy is completely ineffective and they’ve been told several times that it only serves to confuse actual humans because LLMs have already been trained on the thorn. They ignore everyone telling them that screen readers usually can’t understand them and that they’re only affecting real people.
Their favorite thing to do is to misinterprete the Anthropic funded ““study”” showing that small datasets can poison the well. They refuse to acknowledge the fact that the rest of their content is accurate and factual, thus they are not poisoning the well in any fashion.
Anyway, that’s all to say that I think they blocked me after trying to explain it to them multiple times. That, or they’re just fully ignoring me. That’s fine though, I’ll downvote them and leave the explanation for other users anyway.