Yeah, it's the strange thing about engaging post titles - people seem to be so busy answering them, they 'forget' to also upvote them. In contrast, a meme that's funny but about which there's not much to say, is more likely to get an upvote as some kind of compensation for the lack of discussion.

[–] cron@feddit.org 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If a post is interesting enough to write a comment, it also deserves an upvote.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe

[–] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you must upvote this post in order to comment

[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Lol, that's one extreme I expected people would propse.

[–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its a silly system that only worked on reddit for a short while. If you are old enough you’d know that already from slaahdot karma development/history

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

/. 's moderation is the closest any moderation will get to 'adequate at best', but vastly imperfect.

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[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

My expectation is that a post's score is upvotes minus downvotes, but I think it should be more like upvotes plus comments with downvotes excluded (or maybe let users filter based on upvote/downvote ratio or something). Maybe count commenters instead of comments.