1 sat \ 6 replies \ @nice 6 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: I feel like this site has a better Signal to Noise ratio than Bitcoin Twitter bitcoin
This might be a dim view on people but I can see a possibility where a reporting system can be used to weed out fringe and controversial opinions. With SN not having a "downvote", I think having a reporting system can (and most probably will) be used as a "downvote".
That's why I'm leaning towards letting the open market decide which posts get to the top and only filter out posts that are off-topic for the site. Heck, you can even argue to not have any filtering at all. Put a hard limit on the available posts, say 100, and let the tip system dictate which posts survive and which not. That would be a nice experiment to see.
Also, I think a reporting system like that also creates a weird incentive where the site profits for every reported post.
What if SN had a downvote? And it cost the same to downvote as it does to upvote?
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I don't think adding a downvote would help. It's what made reddit a crazy echo chamber of the same ideas and thoughts regurgitated again and again. That's why I mentioned above that stacking sats on a post should not dictate the position of a post in the discussion and the default post sorting should be by most recent activity.
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yeah that's true, can definitely see that. doesn't matter if it's upvotes only or both, the end result is echo chamber type situation.
I like that idea a lot of the default sorting, as long as there's still other options to sort by. so the default is nothing more than a timeline, and if you want to see the "popular" thoughts you can. kinda like the latest tweets vs regular timeline on twitter.
Downvote is better than moderation imo. Its kind of leveraging the wisdom of the crowd. Free speech depend on this to survive. This has been a central argument in favour of free speech since inception.
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Downvote is better than moderation imo. Its kind of leveraging the wisdom of the crowd. Free speech depend on this to survive. This has been a central argument in favour of free speech since inception.
In an ideal world this would be the case. But I think reddit has shown that people will most often upvote and downvote things based on whether they agree with what was said or not. That creates a scenario where the most popular opinion in the subreddit floats to the top and the fringe and challenging ones sink to the bottom.
I think it's better to let the activity of a discussion dictate the position of posts rather than brownie points.
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Understand completely. Thanks for entertaining the idea and providing your thoughts on it. Love the interaction!
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