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

  • TeoTwawki
    2•1 year ago

    You can say it’s the job of the moderation to take care of that kind of hateful content,

    I can and I do :) …also its usually what will happen anyway, downvotes or not.

    It leads to homophobic, racist and generally bigoted comments getting much more displayed appreciation than they should (see: any YouTube comments interaction).

    youtube comments are a very special kind of cesspool. The things you describe should be removed by moderator, downvotes aren’t enough to detur that. Those types of comments should be reported, the post removed, and the user kicked to the curb for saying them. No tolerance for that. No debate is going to change anyone’s mind, its just giving them room to argue in bad faith to further spew their hate.

    Anything not worth a ban, is very perfectly debatable without a negative number telling me who’s opinion the unpopular one (or had more/less puppets to influence it, as sometimes is the case).