Love posting something like a tip for making running an old game easier on Reddit and the only engagement I get being some twats downvoting the post for no reason :angery:
The idea of giving posts a thumbs up or a thumbs down elevating the quality of discussions is such a :so-true: brained concept anyway
It is vastly more effective to reply to a post with :downbear: than it is to actually downvote something anyway.
Immediately after getting rid of them I made a post expressing my disproval at it, but after seeing the before and after; what we have now is clearly better
It's half the fight. We gotta get rid of upvotes too.
And also have user avatars and signatures.
Hard pass on the avatars, never liked those. At least have an option to turn them off if they do exist. I want a text only BBS experience so I can pretend I'm a cool renegade on the subversive part of the net.
And let's get rid of the bloat that is javascript while we're at it. Wasting RAM like that is bourgeois decadence.
That just increases user metrics so you have to keep scrolling to find what you were looking at.
yes yes yes! unironically, javascript is bourgeois decadence and marxists dot org is peak web design
Do they still post? They were my favorite poster from the reddit chapo days.
Ahh to be a long time lurker since way before the :bernie: days. Back when our favorite large boy's mic was probably wired earbuds.
They were here for a while but a long while back had a weird reactionary meltdown and got banned and then I think also threw a fit about getting banned
Idk, I do it to punish myself for being born with original sin
they also got banned on reddit so they go by 6deadlyfetishes now lol
ANIMATED avatars and signatures
I want to see gigantic 00s style signatures, like a fanart collage of a Final Fantasy 7 character with a sad or deep quote in cursive laid on top
We need animated gif signature banners with an arbitrarily decided but mandatory aspect ratio and all comments must be displayed in the order posted. The left 5% of every comment must be taken up by a little indicator that shows our avatar, username, when our account was created, the number of posts we've made, and our last login.
Getting reveries from yelling at George Bush supporters when I was like 14 and had just seen Fahrenheit 9/11.
unironically this.
If you wanna show support, emptyquote or tell people why.
The link aggregator format requires hundreds of thousands of users in order to function properly and even then operates in a regressive way.
I'm sorry but this is the wrong answer, all leftists must either have a constant drug like influx of serotonin flowing through their brain thanks to our smug superiority over all the rules, or be severely mentally ill to the point where we can't even remember the last time we had a crumb of serotonin
articulated positive feedback
Like a reply feature? :thinky-felix:
I'm sorry; I'm not trying to be a smart ass or anything. How do you think the interface could be redesigned to encourage communication? By removing upvotes?
I was strongly in favor of removing the downvotes and I definitely don’t regret that position. I think it’s been a positive thing for the site overall.
In theory at least anyway, downvotes were supposed to push down and away content that wasn't relevant to the discussion but on reddit it became the "i don't agree" button and got abused. Hell, I've seen on-topic posts that were informative or funny get downvoted to hell for no reason.
once something gets to -1 it will get downvoted to hell bc people will just downvote it for being downvoted :blob-no-thoughts:
Reddit is brain drain central. Sucks because I just made a new account there lol
:downbear:
Not actually down voting, just showing off this fancy purple hexbear that's unfortunately upside down.
Wtf flip that bear right side up. He won't maul you unless you're a Fucking Lib
:spamsus: it is right side up, you're just upside down you lib. Or your screen is in which case your screen is a lib
What if I'm hanging upside down off my bed. Which side is now right side up? Choose your path comrade.
Comments function as upvotes in the algorithm. When you comment on a post, it goes up in the sort, even if your comment is disapproving. Effectively the more controversy a post causes, the higher it goes in the algorithm because there are no downvotes.
Forums typically sort by most recent reply. Controversial threads on forums are also typically the most visible because they are being replied to more often. Forum drama is even worse than hexbear drama.
I think it's important that hexbear is a link aggregator and not a forum. The primary purpose of hexbear should be to sort links to other websites based on importance. Discussions are secondary.
I just think hexbear needs better sorting algorithms since removing the downvote has messed up the current algorithm.
Reddit is a site for free thinkers where if you have an opinion that fewer than 50% of people disagree with your opinion doesn't matter and people can clown on you for being part of the outgroup.
It is one of the best decisions regarding online discourse. If a comment is bad, you should be able to refute it through conversation, if it is really bad the mods will step in.
Reddit is the worst at creating an echochamber for groupthink. It always is about creating one singular opinion and burning anyone that disagrees like a heretic. Having and upvote/downvote system only creates a singular thought driven environment that is also easily manipulated.
Having just an upvote button does allow people to see a posts popularity, while places like reddit are less about conversation and more about trying to find who has the one opinion everyone must agree with.
The funniest thing about Reddit is everyone pointing fingers accusing each other of being in an echo chamber when the whole site is an echo chamber.
I don't know about that, when most people see a bad comment they respond with :PIGPOOPBALLS: or peepee poopoo which isn't more constructive than a downvote. Also you can still see group consensus based on how many upvotes certain comments get versus others
Some do which is fun, but others also jump in and have fun conversations with them.
Granted if a comment is getting to the level that :PIGPOOPBALLS: is the response that comment is likely going to get removed anyway.
Some do which is fun, but others also jump in and have fun conversations with them.
Yeah, but some people still engaged with bad comments even when downvotes were still a thing.
There shouldn't be any upvotes either. I wish someone somewhere had invented a way of voting that does not actually make a difference.
Shit, you're right, we need to keep the upvote button.
Still, maybe add a sidevote button that just makes it so that you voted without changing the score or anything?
I wish someone somewhere had invented a way of voting that does not actually make a difference.
They did. It's called Liberal Democracy.
I do not understand what you just said and I suspect that it healthy. When I talked about the ability to vote without changing anything I was actually thinking more about real elections than about internet forums. Still, what did the elf slave do in the end?
When I wish to upvote someone on here I privately message them "good post" and then I link the post below that I'm praising.
you can still brag about getting ratioed, especially by the number of libs replying :downbear:. It's more meaningful when they have to show themselves to downbear you anyway, anonymous downvotes are for cowards and r*dditors
the only engagement I get being some twats downvoting the post for no reason
This is literally impossible to tell if it's a post and not a comment. Post scores are extremely abstract, they have very little to do with how many people actually upvote and downvote them. Each post massively fluctuates even if no one is touching it at all.
The most popular theory years ago was that there are bots that just downvote literally every post that gets posted on reddit, anywhere, by sorting by /r/all/new. But I'm pretty sure most "downvotes" posts receive on reddit literally just aren't real at all. It's just the reddit vote fuzzing.
Reddit is astroturfed to hell with paid services to promote posts with bot upvotes but also bot downvotes to suppress the competition to the promoted post. The algorithm gives major weight to the initial votes so just a couple of early downvotes can pretty much kill the potential of a post to take off.
