Imagine only being allowed to upvote something?

3 years ago by Cows Look Like Maps to c/memes

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streetfestival 101 points 3 years ago

Removing downvoting feels intuitively wrong to me (eg, I believe that dissent is a really important part of a healthy democracy). If all those mega-corp platforms are removing downvoting, then I'm pretty confident my intuition on this matter is correct

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EmergMemeHologram 36 points 3 years ago

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CowsLookLikeMaps 61 points 3 years ago

No, reddit is not removing downvotes. The post was alluding to when they removed displaying downvotes scores.

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pelespirit 5 points 3 years ago

Well that's depressing, I went over to seattle on old and it had a lot of content. It doesn't show any votes if you're not signed in.

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MindSkipperBro12 2 points 3 years ago

If so, that’s just hilarious.

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explodicle 17 points 3 years ago

I suspect soon they'll remove voting altogether, replaced by a measure of how long it held attention.

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Socsa 8 points 3 years ago

Their ranking algorithm very clearly leans on a relative engagement metric pretty heavily, and has for a while.

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stebo02 6 points 3 years ago

The voting will stay but your homepage will be a for you page that selects posts based on your usage data and whatever is trending instead of the votes, in an attempt to bring engagement to a maximum. Just like what's been happening to Instagram for years.

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kautau 5 points 3 years ago

Yes now that engagement is directly monetized, you’re likely correct

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fluxion 3 points 3 years ago

And it happened right when it became apparent that we were living in the Disinformation Age and every bit of power to flag bullshit content became that much more important.

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