Your Karma points will soon be tokens ♥https://t.co/FXdEbeynphThink- community-based decisions. - forking subreddits in disagreements. And all of this without even losing your community points?It's like moving from fb to Twitter without having to rebuild your followers.— Rahul 🔊🦇 (@iamRahul20x) November 3, 2021
They could just keep the numbers on a central server like they do today but if they do so, how will I be absolutely sure that nobody has been tampering with my imaginary internet points?
We could also just say stuff to each other without votes. We used to do that online. Just share an opinion and have a conversation or let it reverberate into the void without a response. Now everything needs a vote and some kind of emoji response. I swear it's a conspiracy to launder inorganic content. If it's just people talking in a forum, there's no way to slip in advertisement without it being pretty obvious.
If everything is based on upvotes, you can slip in adverts and fudge the votes to make it look like people pushed it to the top. A blockchain doesn't fix this. It just makes it even more obfuscated. If everyone trusts the blockchain and the votes are manipulated, then they'll never question it. They'll accept it as true because the precious blockchain of objectivity said so. Now you can't attack the message without having a debate about the legitimacy of the blockchain, which will of course appear legitimate from the outside. The conversation goes from "why is this propaganda being pushed on social media" to "people want it because the blockchain says so, trust the science/math"
We could also just say stuff to each other without votes. We used to do that online. Just share an opinion and have a conversation or let it reverberate into the void without a response.
I think post votes result in a better sort than bumping posts every comment, but I definitely see how it seems silly having votes on each individual comment in a thread. It really gamifies basic conversations, which is one of the worst trends of modern social media in general. It's de-emphasized in the culture of this website, but it certainly isn't absent.
We could also just say stuff to each other without votes. We used to do that online. Just share an opinion and have a conversation or let it reverberate into the void without a response. Now everything needs a vote and some kind of emoji response.
Indeed. Go back a little bit farther, and every post was text, and generally posts only lived for two weeks on average, unless you saved them to your hard drive.
But how else will I know how many upvotes I got? There is no more efficient way to tell
They could just keep the numbers on a central server like they do today but if they do so, how will I be absolutely sure that nobody has been tampering with my imaginary internet points?
We could also just say stuff to each other without votes. We used to do that online. Just share an opinion and have a conversation or let it reverberate into the void without a response. Now everything needs a vote and some kind of emoji response. I swear it's a conspiracy to launder inorganic content. If it's just people talking in a forum, there's no way to slip in advertisement without it being pretty obvious.
If everything is based on upvotes, you can slip in adverts and fudge the votes to make it look like people pushed it to the top. A blockchain doesn't fix this. It just makes it even more obfuscated. If everyone trusts the blockchain and the votes are manipulated, then they'll never question it. They'll accept it as true because the precious blockchain of objectivity said so. Now you can't attack the message without having a debate about the legitimacy of the blockchain, which will of course appear legitimate from the outside. The conversation goes from "why is this propaganda being pushed on social media" to "people want it because the blockchain says so, trust the science/math"
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Back in my day we had to type out "QFT", now these kids are obsessed with "NFT". :grillman:
I think post votes result in a better sort than bumping posts every comment, but I definitely see how it seems silly having votes on each individual comment in a thread. It really gamifies basic conversations, which is one of the worst trends of modern social media in general. It's de-emphasized in the culture of this website, but it certainly isn't absent.
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Indeed. Go back a little bit farther, and every post was text, and generally posts only lived for two weeks on average, unless you saved them to your hard drive.