Perhaps for some posts / comments. But definitely not for all of them. Votes can often be more useful than just feel good or feel bad. Very busy posts often have hundreds of comments.while certainly silly memes and the like may get upvoted there, often relevant or helpful comments do too, with unhelpful or toxic comments generally getting downvoted. Without that system in place I would have to scroll through those hundreds of comments just to find relevant or helpful info instead of not being at the top because the community provided feedback.
Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 days agoMaybe votes are stupid to start with, a feelgood up or down vote that does nothing for the conversation.
/Rant I remember when you typed out what you liked or disliked. Before the stupid Facebook thumbs-up. It was better before. /Rant off
kautau@lemmy.world 4 days ago
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah, I remember dozens of “me too” and “+1” comments after posts people agreed with. It was annoying.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Agreed.
Skavau@piefed.social 3 days ago
The chans also have no quality filter because of this.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You don’t get banned for words in most boards (all?, I haven’t been there in a decade), but you can’t post CP (and maybe high level gore, again, I don’t recall much) and definitely can’t post anything NSFW in blue boards. For me, that’s enough, as I can deal with words.
Skavau@piefed.social 3 days ago
Well no I meant purely about the lack of upvotes and downvotes.
ech@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Votes on sites like this are an algorithm by way of the masses, rather than what you’d find on centralized sites like yt or the like. It’s how the front page gets curated to presumably interesting posts instead of being a random spew of every post made.