The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate.
Fighting fake accounts is hard and most implementations do not currently have an effective way of filtering out fake accounts. I’m sure that the developers will step in if this becomes a bigger problem. Until then, remember that votes are just a number.
I‘m not a fan of up- and downvotes, also but not only for the aforementioned reasons. Classic forums ran fine without any of it.
Classic forums still exist.
Voting does allow the cream to rise to the top, which is why reddit was much better than a forum.
Honestly, I think part of the problem is that companies don’t have an incentive to fight bots or spam: higher numbers of users and engagement make them look better to investors and advertisers.
I don’t think it’s that difficult of a problem to solve. It should be quite possible to detect patterns between real users and bots.
We will see how the fediverse handles it.
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I keep thinking about this. The only reason for votes that a forum cant do, is filtering massive content quantities through an equally massive userbase to get pages of great and revolving posts. In a forum you can just filter with comments/hour and give free promotion to new posts.
I like upvotes, otherwise I’d have stayed on forums. It’s also one of the only ethical algorithmic sorting methods as long as you can whitelist your members.
Ironically, I agree and upvoted this.
I ironically up vote this also. Agreed to no upvote and downvot.
Lets cut the sorting to chronological order. With options to arrange to new or old only.
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I’ve always wondered if it would help to have to reply in order to give an up/downvote but I assume it would likely just result in more spam. Still, I hope people are thinking of new ways to try things