• Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    Better than disabling it:

    • Understand it - low score boils down to “people don’t want to see it”. Everything else is assumption, and should be taken with a grain of salt.
    • Deal with it - you won’t be able to please everyone all the time.
    • Vote - if you see some post/comment that you feel like undeservedly downvoted, by all means, upvote it.

    I still wish that downvoting was multidimensional though. Negative feedback is important.

    • TwinTurbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      Negative feedback is important.

      Exactly. Without it, we’ll have the same problem that YouTube has without dislikes, where a video with a hundred likes and a thousand dislikes appears as a generally liked video…

      • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Imagine a system that works like this:

        • upvotes - a simple click, as it is now
        • downvotes - you click the downvote button, and then specify a reason from a list (disagreeable, unfunny, inaccurate, off-topic, rude, disingenuous, etc.)

        So it’s a bit like Slashdot, but only for negative reactions.

        Each “reason” would be a dimension, as now you can measure content by funniness, accuracy, etc. And one of the effects of this system is that, if you are being downvoted, you’ll have a better grasp on why. It’s considerably more useful as feedback, for users in good faith.

        (It has a few additional advantages too; for example custom sorting filters, and the very fact that a downvote takes a tiiiny bit more effort than an upvote should encourage positive feedback over negative one.)