I dont get the hate for a voting system, I think naming it after karma feels a bit weird…. but in general a voting system does hugely improve the quality of crowded conversations and naturally avoids the problems web forums have with only one conversational thread being possible at a time.

People get angry that downvotes should be applied only in valiant noble ways, but honestly sometimes you just gotta downvote somebody for being an asshole and if they are actually an asshole than usually the huge amount of downvotes defangs someone’s ability to claim their viewpoint is held by some exaggerated significant portion of the community.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

you just gotta downvote somebody for being an asshole and if they are actually an asshole than usually the huge amount of downvotes defangs someone’s ability to claim their viewpoint is held by some exaggerated significant portion of the community.

The issues is that the asshole is going to downvote you back, and will bring his ten alts to make sure your comment is buried into oblivion. Downvotes can be identified by admins with the current version of Lemmy, but that's a new can of worms (and work for the admins)

[–] The_wild_card@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait...you seem to have 10 alts or so ......?

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 8 months ago

My main account is now on Reddthat, which disables downvotes, and I can tell you I don't use my other accounts to downvote people.

But yes, you could potentially use my case as an example, other people might do it, and use them as I said.

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