lol it's so damn clear some users juggle several profiles at once, nothing like dovetailing a day-old thread where you and one other person are going back and forth yet weirdly all their posts go +3 and all of yours go -3 within minutes
Remember the vote bots from the early days, you could get +20 to 40 upbears instantly if you hit the right keywords. The mods and Devs did a good job with fixing that though, o7 to them
Yeah that's a great benefit too, it's just additional transparency in this site that lends itself to really easy vote manipulation. The best way to combat that is letting people see both up and down votes on posts and comments.
yeah, and i don't want to point fingers, but there's very specifically one sentiment on this site that seems to be in the minority yet the voting ratio would have you believe otherwise
I switched back to Base theme once it was mostly usable after the fix yesterdayish. Some dropdowns are still unreadable and the text post thumbnails sort of flicker to invisible when hovering over them, but it's an improvement.
I do think there should be a shared experience upvote/downvote color association though. Having it vary by theme is like changing the icon by theme from an arrow to a check to an eye emoji, it's jarring and interrupts the shared experience that the site is trying to convey.
can you make a post in !feedback@hexbear.net with your comments on the current state of light mode? the theming system is pretty far along now so it'll be really easy to make tweaks _
I'll take screenshots as I go, but right now having all upvotes be blue and so close to downvote color is disorienting and defeats the purpose of assigning them both colors at all.
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It's one of the few features this site was doing better than Reddit.
I said elsewhere, knowing how many people disagree with your post is just as valuable (to me, more) as knowing how many agree with you.
lol it's so damn clear some users juggle several profiles at once, nothing like dovetailing a day-old thread where you and one other person are going back and forth yet weirdly all their posts go +3 and all of yours go -3 within minutes
LMAO who the hell has vote alts on this goddamn website already, tell me so i can march them to the wall
But then how will you know which one to shoot?
Remember the vote bots from the early days, you could get +20 to 40 upbears instantly if you hit the right keywords. The mods and Devs did a good job with fixing that though, o7 to them
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Lol
Yeah that's a great benefit too, it's just additional transparency in this site that lends itself to really easy vote manipulation. The best way to combat that is letting people see both up and down votes on posts and comments.
yeah, and i don't want to point fingers, but there's very specifically one sentiment on this site that seems to be in the minority yet the voting ratio would have you believe otherwise
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Are you not with Joe, My_Army?? :stalin-shining:
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the obvious one. it really speaks to the weakness of the ideology when it can't stand on its own merits and has to be manipulated
its all fun and games until the stalinists give themselves too many internet points :angery:
no, it's still all fun and games, we just call it LARPing
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lol
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Also, as light mode representative, upvotes are blue now for some reason.
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Upvotes should stay the same color across every theme. Upvotes being dark blue and downvotes being purple are basically the same color.
Light mode looked good with them as the deeper gold color they were yesterday. It was only neon yellow that hurt to look at.
Please fix
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I switched back to Base theme once it was mostly usable after the fix yesterdayish. Some dropdowns are still unreadable and the text post thumbnails sort of flicker to invisible when hovering over them, but it's an improvement.
I do think there should be a shared experience upvote/downvote color association though. Having it vary by theme is like changing the icon by theme from an arrow to a check to an eye emoji, it's jarring and interrupts the shared experience that the site is trying to convey.
can you make a post in !feedback@hexbear.net with your comments on the current state of light mode? the theming system is pretty far along now so it'll be really easy to make tweaks _
I'll take screenshots as I go, but right now having all upvotes be blue and so close to downvote color is disorienting and defeats the purpose of assigning them both colors at all.
thank you! I'll pass along the vote color thing :)
They still show up if you hover over the number. On mobile, it only works on comments. Post downvotes are invisible on mobile.