i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

    • @MegadethRulz@lemmy.world
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      452 years ago

      This is one thing I’ve been trying to figure out, I keep hearing this a lot. What exactly is different with the upvotes and downvotes? Do they not bury comments and posts or something? Serious question just trying to be informed

      • While third party apps do track total up votes there is no “karma”. So unlike Reddit having 60bajilliondie points means nothing to anyone but you. Don’t even think I can see someone else’s points.

        • @scottywh@lemmy.world
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          You could with certain apps… Someone shared someone else’s tally in comments on a post yesterday… Can’t remember which app it was though.

      • @everythingsucks@lemmy.world
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        From my new user experience it seems like active comments get placed higher regardless of upvoted. i.e. comments that are still being commented on or new ones.

        • @MegadethRulz@lemmy.world
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          22 years ago

          I like that system actually. Sometimes an unpopular opinion on Reddit would get downvoted and buried but it sparked an interesting discussion where the rest of the thread would be quality content. I like seeing some heavily downvoted comments sometimes and hiding that isn’t necessary. I feel like the user should have control over what way they get their feed and how upvotes and downvotes effect that.

      • @donut4ever@lemmy.world
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        They certainly did to a lot of people to the point they were afraid to state their opinions so they don’t get downvoted

        Edit: I just noticed your username 😂 fucking epic.

    • DrMango
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      112 years ago

      I get what you’re saying - that we don’t have a “karma” score associated with our username - but the votes do drive what people see first when they view a particular community or the “front page” so they do matter.

        • @egeres@lemmy.world
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          At least for now, maybe in the future lemmy starts to integrate instance-based plugins (or god know what) that makes more use of up/down votes

    • @scottywh@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      They didn’t really mean shit on Reddit either except to the high score obsessed and people who intended to sell their account to be used by bots and scammers.