win95I Hope Rexxitors Tone Down the Low-Hanging Comment Chains on Lemmy.
zkxs~~you have my updoot~~
I jest. Ultimately without some sort of mechanic that disincentivizes noisy, low-effort joke comments there's not going to be some sort of magical cultural shift. I'm just arriving, but from what I'm seeing Lemmy doesn't have any sort of design that will skew comments towards actual discussion and away from jokes/noise in any meaningful way.
Yeah, I was thinking of having some sort of feature that pre-builds thread topics in a post (humor, discussion, cross-searching) where users can put there comments in depending on what it is they're going for.
I'm also eyeballing Tildes as a Reddit alternative, and their dev has an interesting approach to increasing signal-to-noise ratio. They don't have downvotes, but they have labels that affect how comments are sorted, with the
joke and noise labels moving comments down in the sort by a pretty significant amount.
TheTimeKnifeThat sounds like it could work pretty well, you could even just add it on to other comment sort styles. You don't need to necessarily remove downvotes if you really want them in specific instances.
SensTildes developed has openly said they don’t intend for it be a replacement for reddit, and that kinda is what makes me come here instead.
If they aren’t open to the idea, it will never happen.
Not saying they should open the floodgates either, it’s mainly that the use cases and end goal for Tildes vs Lemmy are completely different
mobiuscoffeeDoesn't Slashdot kind of work like that?
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