Voting in the threadiverse (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Snoopy@jlai.lu to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Hi,

i want to explore the various way we can highlight content.

Currently, on the threadiverse, we use vote to show our approval, discontent...and we can couple it with a bot for moderation. Or hide post below a certain score...

Some instance completly removed downvote as Beehaw. Piefed is experimenting private vote. On other fediverse software, mastodon, iceshrimp, there is no downvote and we use emojis to express our feelings.

You also have website as https://slashdot.org/ where you can tell that comment was insightfull or a troll, or funny...

There is also also website that compare software or video as https://tournesol.app/

Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?
What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?

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[-] Snoopy@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?

I believe vote should be visible by anyone as the modlog. It allow us to mitigate raid, troll, mod abuse. However, i'm aware it could lead to potential issue as mod abuse, harrassement...

Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?

No. I'm not sastified because vote aim was to highlight content. Currently, It partly achieve that goal. The content is highlighted because it is popular. For me, there is some kind of social and cultural pressure.

So i think we can explore it. Slashdot seems a good example as it separate funny comment to more serious one and troll. I would like to highlight technical comment and good website source.

Having a list of blocked website and the reason would be great. We can also limit downvote to subscriber and certain users. PieFed already do that.

It would be great to add emojis, as in iceshrimp. It allow us to express our feeling :)

What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?

For now, i only know slashdot and tournesol. I shared a link about quadratic vote because i find it more interesting than voting yes-no.

What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?

Maybe a debate mode ?

For example, here, under this post, we are sharing the pro and con of the voting system and our thoughts.

What if we have a nice board that sum up all our argument and analyse our link via a bias system ? As the website alternative to.
Or we can also underline part of a comment and add link, comment, share our opinion. It would be a threaded quote system.

I hope we will see other example that can inspire us. :)