Lemmyās design is focused on quality content by ditching the Karma farmers and addicts. No more chasing upvotesāpeople here actually focus on real value instead of feeding the ego.
EDIT: I know there are upvotes and downvotes, but the problem with Reddit is you canāt post in most communities if your karma or reputation is bad. This is a big problem because herd mentality prevails there and if ypu have unpopular opinions youāre basically censored.
Lemmy isnāt designed to milk ypur dopamine with notifications every 10 upvotes, so you focus more on posting valuable cont instead of farming for approval and upvotes.
Visible post and comment scores are still going to produce some of this behavior. You may not have a total karma but people will still get dopamine from seeing their posts getting upvotes and be reinforced in doing the same again. So the same mechanisms of social pressure and uniformisation are at play. The worst being when people delete their minority opinion comments because of the downvote pressure.
Down votes mean I am reaching the correct audience for that specific content
Maybe. They might also mean youāre an idiot.
Slashdot used to have a multidimensional voting system that would allow you to up or down vote something based on whether it was funny/insightful/correct, etc (canāt remember the dimension). I wish we had something like that. Sometimes it would be useful to mark a comment as āfunny, but also wrongā
I had a discussion about using the Slashdot style voting rather than the Reddit style.
It not only has the additional tag, it has the max āupvoteā display limit of 5, and the display code will expand and promote the best rated comments, while hiding the garbage.
I think comments on most forums would benefit from there being no ābig upvoteā number to chase, as well as making the highest rated comments in a thread of say, 200, more obvious.
No, it was only up or down, but you could also choose to add a descriptor, funny, insightful, informative, flamebait, troll, and a few others: https://slashdot.org/faq#meta3
Welcome: Quarkvotes
Up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom
Up/down = Usefulness or relation to topic
Charm/strange = Agree/accurate or not
Top/bottom = Love/Hate
I vote you up-charm-top, btw
Genuinely curious, does that mean that, for you, getting downvoted gives you dopamine/a sense of accomplishment?
Your above comment is in the negative when Iām making this comment. Does that feel good? Again, genuinely curious, hard to put a non-judgemental tone in writing.
I canāt relate to that feeling, upvotes and downvotes to me show how much a community agrees or disagrees with what Iāve said. Either what I said isnāt right for the community I posted it in or maybe just a generally unpopular opinion if Iām getting downvotes. Might make me reflect but usually no big deal, Iām mostly here for the discussions, memes and current events. Outside of trolling I donāt really see how getting downvoted might be seen as a good thing by a poster.
Does that feel good?
I just want the absolute value of my commentās karma to be high. That means it has been read at least that many times.
If people down vote but are unable to provide a coherent rebuttal, that means that they are rage down voting.
