Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I think something which would benefit the tone or ‘culture’ here would be to make it immediately and publicly clear that a negative interaction is unwelcome. Rather than get into a pointless debate with a troll, simply reply “This is a rude and/or low-effort comment which nobody wants here.” It might not make much difference to the troll but for anyone else who reads it it creates and reinforces expectations about behaviour. The same thing goes for positive contributions; make sure to comment letting people know when you value their contribution.
I wouldn’t mind if moderation was more heavyhanded too. If someone is rude and abusive, block them from posting on the community, regardless of the point they may be trying to make. In that respect I would like to see more moderators from the community
I’m sure technical things could be done to help too. Perhaps letting users switch off visibility for posts/comments that have received a certain proportion of downvotes for example.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 weeks ago
I couldn't agree more strongly... I mean we kind of have that already. Everytime I see something that has a score of like -40 because of all of the downvotes, I think they got their just punishment and it's clear that no one likes what they wrote. I think it's superior to replying because it doesn't give that person any reply to start an argument. Just silence and downvotes. But however we decide to do it, i think we should be very open and upfront with what's expected behavior. And I'd like to see that happen more often.
PieFed has that feature. Comments with a score less than -10 (I think) just collapse. I think we need more of those kinds of features in Lemmy and the respective apps.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Neat idea. Would be cool if the threshold could be configured by the user too (though a recommended default value would be wise).
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I think it should be proportion and not net score. Ie. If after atleast 8 votes have been cast >70% are downvotes, comment is collapsed.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 weeks ago
Oh, forget what I said. I was going to write a lenthy reply... But in fact it is configurable in the user profile. -10 is just the default value.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Being able to do this in Lemmy and configure it would be amazing. In Piefed’s implementation does it leave ‘orphaned’ responses to the hidden comment visible or does it hide those as well?