InternetTubesFrankly, I think it’s the idea of upvote/downvote that’s flawed. It made sense on reddit because they wanted to farm us, but it’s a dated system and it’s flawed. 20 children shouldn’t have more power to decide the weights of comments than 1 professor, and the only division is that one might not favor one keyword (the community) over the other or the people who moderate it. It gets even worse when people don’t even want to move away from the people where who upvotes or downvotes isn’t shown because that’s what they are used to. But it’s the fediverse, maybe some servers will innovate and provide new systems.
I couldn’t agree more. It shouldn’t be the case that you can get someone’s comment hidden because you don’t like them and went through their comment history. If I gave an awful take, sure, it would even be better if you just told me so I can reevaluate myself.
I used to work in the video game industry and provided a bit of insight into some behind the scenes stuff that didn’t violate my NDAs. There’s tons of stuff that gamers sometimes have to say about the tech, and I like to sometimes quietly share a bit about the situation. All of that rather innocuous commentary was buried.