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UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN Aug 9, 2023

Be honest, do you trawl a user profile to downvote/upvote when you see a comment you dislike/goes against your beliefs?

Be honest, do you trawl a user profile to downvote/upvote when you see a comment you dislike/goes against your beliefs? - Lemmy.world

Saw this a lot on Reddit. Its not specific to here, just trying to gauge how people think. I’d see people posting about how “X said this! Have you seen what else they said in their site history?” And a stream of votebombing would happen. I also wonder if this behaviour went the other way. Bias was confirmed, so profiles get a little boost? There are sites that hide posts and comments after a certain number of downvotes, but these always seemed to get the engagement even after.

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DavidGarcia Aug 9, 2023

Viewing the comment history of other people shouldn’t even be a feature, or at least optional. It made Reddit so incredibly toxic.

Same, post history should be optional.

It’s such a childish behavior to stalk someones history just to be able to dismiss their argument. It makes nuanced discussion between different camps so much harder and is a big reason why Reddit was so polarized.

On YouTube, everything is much more self contained, you only see like 3 comments of the same person on the same channel. It is much more refreshing to be there in my opinion.

Being on Reddit is like fighting with your toxic ex who constantly brings up something irrelevant you did 10 years ago.

The features a social network has very much influences the quality of the discourse. I would much rather Lemmy gives users much more fine grained control over these kinds of features. Like give users the option to hide their post/comment history, but then perhaps also let communities ban those users from commenting, let each community decide. Same with anonymous posting etc…

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Flying Squid

I’m sorry… you want Lemmy to be more like YouTube?

Because I think you might be in a minority of one there.