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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the issue is that the upvote/downvote binary is used for more than just (good contribution)/(bad contribution).

Back when Reddit was small enough to have community values, reddiquette was taken semi-seriously. But with the push for more users over the past 5-7 years, that’s all gone out the window.

I’ve thought a bit about how that issue could be fixed in a way that still allows content to be rated by usefulness democratically, and I’m pretty convinced that for that to happen, there would need to be an upvote/downvote and an agree/disagree.

Order content by vote delta, but display the agree/disagree counts on the content.

Would be interesting to be able to see content that makes good arguments but that is largely disagreed with instead of having that content disappear at the bottom of the page.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

various reaction choices seems to be a better communicator.. like on linkedin. i'd rather flag something as interesting or funny or ugh..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and that would give people an outlet for when they want to express how they feel about some content without having to muddy the default prioritize/deprioritize-based sorting.