Would a dinner party suffer if it had 10,000 people at the table and instead of saying “shut up” people could just turn the volume knob down on someone else a little, but nobody’s voice would get silenced unless more people turned the knob down on them than up?
What if the dinner party were open invitation?
Downvotes fold comments and sort them last. It’s signal inhibition.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I disagree. Communities suffer when noise outweighs signal.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is to explicitly invalidate other people’s opinions. We are talking about points of view expressing civilly, not about irrelevancy.