Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.
Skavau@piefed.social 5 weeks agoThey're there so the frontpage isn't a disordered mess where nonsense posts aren't given equal weight to meaningful news stories.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You can do this by displaying the threads in the order they were last bumped and pruning / deleting them by the last time they were bumped (age) or thread limit per board, in other words, based on participation. …you don’t need voting buttons.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
This does not work at all. There are many threads being participated in all the time on all kinds of communities. If we did it this way, we would get a new set of posts on the front page every time you refresh, simply because 20 comments had been posted in 20 threads that just happen to be the newest comments. This model of last bump only works if activity is fairly low.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It works on 4chan which has much higher traffic.
Skavau@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
That's still disordered and just encourages people to bump their own threads.
The upvote/downvote system is foundational to sites like this. Short of a new, more advanced voting system (which is a long way out) it's not going anywhere. If you don't want to look at it like that, you can always default all of your own feeds and threads to /new/.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not if posting in your own thread doesn’t bump it.
Skavau@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Okay, well that might be a good suggestion for /active/.
But in any case you already have your own tools for what you want.