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  • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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    7 days ago

    I fear disabling upbears would just needlessly throttle engagement. People want to see the number go up so why take that away?

    • REgon [they/them]
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      7 days ago

      It would also make sort functions way worse. I don't want a web1.0 style forum, if I did then I'd go to one of the 1000s of dead forums with unsortable threads where random noise is weighted as highly as all other things

    • blight [he/him]
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      7 days ago

      because it encourages doomscrolling in the worst possible way, searching for the dumbest take that will garner the highest upbear count

      • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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        7 days ago

        Then don’t upbear it or engage with the content. I don’t watch tv shows I don’t like because I actually don’t have to even though I know they exist

      • REgon [they/them]
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        7 days ago

        Yeah that's all social media. Block the things that make your doomscrolling unenjoyable instead of having a narc mindset about people enjoying shitposts different from the shitposts you enjoy

        • blight [he/him]
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          7 days ago

          i would argue scrolling through endless “peepee poopoo” has a profoundly different effect on the experience of doomerism than scrolling through endless “genocide is good actually”. rage bait has an inherent engagement advantage and we can counteract that.

          • REgon [they/them]
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            7 days ago

            i would argue scrolling through endless “peepee poopoo” has a profoundly different effect on the experience of doomerism than scrolling through endless “genocide is good actually”.

            Yeah I would argue scrolling thru mindless drivel instead of well-worded debunkings and people helping each other with finding flaws in the current system, which is what was on the tanks in large amounts, would have two different end results. <- We can phrame both things to sound like the "more bad" thing.
            The thing is though, I'm not a narc that gets mad some people like to write about shit and piss and have a laugh about that, instead of my own treat

            edit: sorry, I thought you were someone else.

            • blight [he/him]
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              7 days ago

              Comrade, I think you make some good points, and I don’t mean to be dismissive, but the fact that you can’t keep track of who you’re replying to anymore is an invitation to log out a while. I’m disengaging.