Insightful or Fun? Are you people serious?

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[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

Yes. It worked for slashdot. Downvotes just allow for brigading by people to censor others as reddit has shown. Our layout is a good design if everyone wants to be heard without being censored. Plus it allows for 2 types of sorting by the type of upvote

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    [–]m68k 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    I'm sure it has been answered, but I'm assuming it's a way to sort out the shitposts from the real posts. Not to say shitposts are a bad thing... :P

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      [–]m68k 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Which is why I hide political subs.

      [–]itsgettingcloser[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      It worked for slashdot

      LMAO

      Worked real good... can't even remember the last time anyone ever talked about 'slashdot'.

      [–]Spud 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

      It did work. The problem with Slashdot boils down to it being sold and put on autopilot. Back in the day, when there was a "Slashdot Effect", that decision really did work pretty well.

      I was there. Funny, when I even think about posting on /. the meta mod points start to flow... Anyone with a low UID gets no ads, mod points, ass kissed, just for thinking about a comment. Sad.

      [–]fizzyj 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      it does work

      I don't talk about slashdot because I don't want it ruined like reddit

      slashdot is great

      [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Yes, not having a downvote is great. But having your password changed up on you by a bot or something suspicious is not.

      [–]Spud 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      YES!!!

      Total win, in my view. Others have mentioned Slashdot. Back in the day, Rob Malda had an open discussion about all of this. The decision to amplify good, or quality, funny up from the noise worked very well.

      Downvotes = meta

      Truth is, one can scroll right on by, block, ignore, or better?

      Write something better, post something better, upvote something better. When promoting better is the only option, there will be more better and less meta.

      [–]m68k 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      What would you had come up with?