Hey! Thanks to the whole Reddit mess, I’ve discovered the fediverse and its increidible wonders and I’m lovin’ it :D
I’ve seen another post about karma, and after reading the comments, I can see there is a strong opinion against it (which I do share). I’d love to hear your opinions, what other method/s would you guys implement? If any ofc
I think voting has the potential to be very useful but what we want to move away from is the reactionary “I disagree with you / dislike your post, so downvote”
One experiment I would like to see is requiring a reason when downvoting. Factually incorrect, violates this magazine’s civility code, trolling, etc. Some reasons might have overlap with the report feature, so a downvote for e.g. illegal content might automatically notify the moderators as well. This might be contingent on a feature that can impose restrictions for abuse of the report feature.
Although it is already relatively easy for anyone to notice when an account is blanket downvoting a thread. In theory, it’s already a bit easier for users to sniff out bad actors because they’ll either have a clear pattern of misbehavior or a conspicuous lack of account age or participation
I like the idea of giving more information, however I’d say for both upvotes and downvotes. Me, as a user, I want to do things as quick as possible, so I’d say the action of upvoting/downvoting while giving more information should be embed into a quick wheel.
I like your comment, long press upvote and then select why in the categories. The same for downvoting