Comment on Rule 3 - Updated
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 day ago
In addition, rule 7 (low effort posts) is deleted as everyone seems to agree its handled just fine with votes.
This one is tough for instances like mine. Downvotes are turned off, so I and others like me who choose to experience the Fediverse in a different way will not see posts fall, only rise. In theory, these low-effort posts wouldn’t get many positive votes in the first place, but it would be nice to still have an option for those of us who don’t use downvotes.
Basically, removing the rule and relying on downvotes is exclusive to instances that don’t have downvotes.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Thats fair, though I’ll point out that in the pat 2 months there have been 2 posts removed for being “low effort”, and were also not at a negative anyway just a mod’s personal perspective.
The most recent one that actually was upside down self-deleted.
I don’t believe there is any real issue at the moment here, but you are welcome to start a discussion thread on it.
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I think that’s a fair assessment. If it becomes an issue where we’re getting inundated with low-quality posts, then it might be worth bringing it back up.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I want to add on to this comment that there are also users who use clients that hide the ability to downvote if negative scores or downvotes are disabled in the settings (which is fair). Tesseract is one that comes to mind with that restriction, where if downvotes are turned off, your downvote button is removed and the upvote button is replaced with a like/heart button.
Being said, agree I don’t see many low quality posts in the first place. But it would be nice if reports or comments could be included as a way to judge low effort as well,
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I’d say no matter what reports will always be a factor (well, once I can consistently see them at least, thus the note to DM)