Posted by GnomeChumpsky in Ramble
Make the downvote and upvote buttons arbitrarily non-functional, other than if somebody's downvote/upvote percentage reaches 50% they're awarded an asshole badge.
Personally I think like buttons are one of the shittiest things to ever happen to the internet.... other than smart phones.
IMO straight voting systems are great until botnets start doing there thing and giving one person the votes of hundreds of users. Hopefully they have something to counteract those types ....
Well what I like about the voting system is it's democratic in theory (though there isn't anything stopping you from creating dozens of accounts, realistically) and because it's a decent gauge of what content belongs and doesn't like someone else pointed out.
I'm more likely to look at a link or read something that has hundreds of upvotes on reddit, for example, than I would if it only had 3. And that's a psychological thing that I'm sure sites like reddit are gaming, because it tricks you into thinking, "Wow, this must be good". I guess on our end, you'll just have to trust that we won't game it.
One of the features I love most about our voting system is it's reminiscent of the earlier days of reddit where you see both the upvote and down vote totals. This feature has been removed from reddit since probably 2010-2012 or so. I know Ruqqus has this feature in place and I think Voat may as well. I always thought it was good for perspective of what the actual community using the website though, and that removing them was a step in the wrong direction.
Anyway, do you know why I've called this place RAMBLE yet?
notaspook wrote
LOL I kind of like that idea but the vote system is usually pretty good for self moderation. For example, on reddit I know that the good content and comments is under "controversial".