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On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion (programming.dev)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I treat social media as pure discussion platform to advance understanding or to know new stuff.

There had been something on my mind lately which I wanted to discuss as a way to improve the upvotes relevance to the quality of the post and the amount of discussion.

Let's apply quality control on upvotes, so any post can get only 20 upvotes till it gets a specific amount of comments then the limit could be pumped up to 40 upvotes till it gets more comments, etc...

Why I am bringing this up, you might ask? The linked post by me is the peek proof of my point.

It's pretty clear no one read the linked article and despite that, the post is the top post in the technology community. There is no comments discussing directly the story and from the face of it, There does not seem to be any indicator that any one benefited from this.

I skimmed over the story and shared it in the hopes to basically learn new stuff, get relevant recommendations or basically read some direct discussions.

In any way, I think my described system to handle upvotes would highly improve Lemmy, taking into consideration that numbers used are only for demonstration and the used numbers will need to be figured out separately.

Should this system be implemented into Lemmy?

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Let’s apply quality control on upvotes, so any post can get only 20 upvotes till it gets a specific amount of comments then the limit could be pumped up to 40 upvotes till it gets more comments, etc…

Ultimately this is just limiting ways that people can vote. Voting is the democratic way to sort posts. I don't think you can limit without ultimately influencing the system in unintended bad ways, since that will restrict how people can vote. Just let people vote.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But to vote without engaging with the actual content is just to "sort" posts based on feelings. Who cares?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 3 days ago

This is like requiring people to read a specific text book before they vote in real life elections. I hope you can see the problem with that.

[–] Pro@programming.dev 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As I said, this is not to control people upvotes, but rather to control the quality of upvotes.

The system I am laying down here is pretty simple and would need to be actually worked on to get it to a final implementation.

Something I did not talk about is the downvotes and how we can control it's quality.

Simply put, I don't care how you as a user vote, but I care about the sorting algorithm that sort posts based on upvotes and would be improved by the proposed change.