Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

environment more hostile to discussion and honest exchange.

“Voting” and “discussion” are separate things. The old forums did not have voting but still had polarization, personal attacks, hellthreads, etc.

The problem is that Reddit/Facebook turned “voting” from a tool meant to measure “quality” (e.g, this post is relevant to the community, this comment does not add to the discussion) into a tool to measure “popularity” (I agree with this, so I vote up. I don’t like this, so I downvote).

Either get rid of voting altogether, or let’s bring back a culture where “votes” are meant to signal quality.

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