It seems like having a website open and available on the internet is getting practically impossible to manage, with bots accounting for more and more traffic. AI has gotten to a point where it can circumvent just about any form of captcha, sooooo, what? Does "the internet just get abandoned in favor of some other, better technology that we hope crops up? Does it fade away? Do the real nerds start their own separate internet, and not let companies in? I donno, food for thought I guess.
Should we accept votes from accounts that never post or comment?
You can give unlimited upvotes but you earn one downvote per post or comment to give to another post or comment (so you can always downvote if you explain).
The bots will find a quiet corner to go jerk themselves off to pump the numbers.
I think votes are a bad idea in general.
Voting seems to have the objective of popular/good rising, the mediocre staying in place, and moving down the “junk”.
Are you suggesting just get rid of voting and replace with nothing or is there something better?
I’m thinking I’d like to try doing without it. The Fediverse isn’t so large yet that it’s really needed, maybe later when theres’ multi-thousand-comment threads like Reddit has.
It only works when it’s small because you’re usually reading all responses on a post anyway. It really didn’t matter what order I read all four responses.
I would expect communities to grow over time if they can evolve in healthy ways. More diversity is usually good but then you’re digging for gold, the good comments, and the work digging was not only part of the fun but it made the find even better.
I think the difference is those were all people talking for the audience. If you and I have a direct conversation and try to avoid our audience, we might realize what made those comment threads better. You watched a conversation between two people and not a performance to be observed.
Then how do we keep these communities just the right size to make it work? To be fair, there are times I’m good with the easy dopamine hit and social media puts the pre-filtered pre voted treasure right there. No effort needed on my side.
It’s like there’s glimpses of the old internet here and there.
Yet the reader is already here.
So, if I understood him correctly, you should upvote the parent comment.
Yes, as I said, the Fediverse isn’t so large yet that it’s really needed.
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You’re equating votes on comments on a small Internet discussion forum with votes for the political control of your country? I think you’ve rather lost your perspective here.