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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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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Im with you. I started using the active view but initially I thought it actually ordered like top but by number of comments. Still it gives it in order of what was last commented on. I like the idea of your system. I had thought it would be nice if you could only vote if you commented but then thought about how it would encourage garbage commenting in order to vote. Personally I rarely vote. Doing so only in the extremes (the wow this is incredible I want folks to see this or for something completely aweful). Honestly im a bit more likely to block than downvote. I would love the voting if everyone did it like this but I know many go through in sorta a I suport/ I don't kind of way marking everything they scroll through.