Hey! Thanks to the whole Reddit mess, I’ve discovered the fediverse and its increidible wonders and I’m lovin’ it :D
I’ve seen another post about karma, and after reading the comments, I can see there is a strong opinion against it (which I do share). I’d love to hear your opinions, what other method/s would you guys implement? If any ofc
What if we had a community standing metric that flips only between “good” and “bad.”
You get “bad standing” if the majority of your contributions in the last 6 months have a majority of downvotes than upvotes, but it resets after 6 months.
Everyone defaults to “good standing”.
This serves the purpose of a metric to filter out trolls or bad-faith actors, whilst making “karma farming” pointless.
People commonly use the downvote button as a way to indicate that they disagree. I’m not in favor of punishing unpopular opinions when they’re expressed in good faith.
But I also can’t think of a system where “troll or bad content” can be separated from “I don’t like what I read”.
The more we push popular opinions the more of them will be shared, leading to communities becoming echo chambers and even good faith arguments against the common consensus will be lumped together with the worst of bad actors.
This is exactly what I dislike about Reddit.
Me neither. People would just push whatever button means “punish commenter”. Slashdot tried for a while with multiple scores given per comment like “funny”, “informative”, etc. It didn’t take off.
This is just human behaviour though friend, I don’t think we can ever change that. People don’t want to see what they don’t want to see… it’s not necessarily a bad thing, and if you remove that power then you remove a lot of the motivation behind the platform.