Recently, many of our anti-Zionists posts have been downvoted to oblivion by liberals. As hexberians realized a while back, downvotes only help liberals since they are more numerous and they don’t need to engage in discourse. I am proposing to just get rid of downvotes and instead engage in discourse on content that we disagree on.
The good thing about upvoting is it makes the best content go to the top. I say get rid of downvotes entirely and hide upvotes. So they still function but don’t display a score
I think it's an improvement over the old BBS style "last replied to at the top" and also naturally integrates the replies that are "broad agreement but nothing to add" (e.g. "this") for measuring a particular thread's engagement.
Not a grad user, but replying to say I would love to try out an instance which implements this.
You can already effectively do this by
Yes, thank you, I am aware of those two fewtures and have used them before. However that only changes the feel of the site for me and not for other users. It would not change the behaviour, culture or feel of the instance itself.
I'm imagining that an instance without visible upvotes would have a different culture to that of both grad and bear, possibly one that I may find more valuable and enjoyable.
How that would be I cannot say for sure. Plus I know the solution here is 'DIY' so I'm just sharing my thoughts.
For what it's worth, the Hiding Vote Scores toggle has a bit of a bug on mobile, at least, if I long press the upvote button, I can view the balloon showing the upvotes, downvotes and aggregate score. Unsure if the corresponding behaviour on PC does the same (mouse hover?).
I strongly agree with this. A problem might be the way sorting works, a comment at the top would have the implicit perception of a higher score, even with hidden scores.