Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
Let’s apply quality control on upvotes, so any post can get only 20 upvotes till it gets a specific amount of comments then the limit could be pumped up to 40 upvotes till it gets more comments, etc…
Ultimately this is just limiting ways that people can vote. Voting is the democratic way to sort posts. I don’t think you can limit without ultimately influencing the system in unintended bad ways, since that will restrict how people can vote. Just let people vote.
As I said, this is not to control people upvotes, but rather to control the quality of upvotes.
The system I am laying down here is pretty simple and would need to be actually worked on to get it to a final implementation.
Something I did not talk about is the downvotes and how we can control it’s quality.
Simply put, I don’t care how you as a user vote, but I care about the sorting algorithm that sort postes based on upvotes and would be improved by the proposed change.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But to vote without engaging with the actual content is just to “sort” posts based on feelings. Who cares?
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
This is like requiring people to read a specific text book before they vote in real life elections. I hope you can see the problem with that.