Timeline for Should I do anything to protect, or even privilege, minority opinions on my site?
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| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:23 | history | edited | Philipp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:17 | comment | added | Philipp | @Caleb It comes a bit late, but I addressed why Reddit is a good example why voting in discussion-oriented communities does not work. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:17 | history | edited | Philipp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 25, 2018 at 12:56 | comment | added | Calmarius | @Calen Voting systems encourage people to create posts the community will like and discourage posts that the community don't like. This reinforces the established views and essientially censors every dissent. Top posts in Reddit and Disqus don't add anything new to the discussion, they are only posts the most people know, relate to and agree with. This doesn't move the humankind ahead. New ideas, original thoughts, questioning the status quo, recognizing the problems, shallowing the red pill is needed to advance. Voting systems actively discourage that. And I think this is bad. | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 17:13 | comment | added | Caleb | I've seen voting systems make quite a positive difference in discussion systems as well. You have to do it a little bit differently (like not feeding the votes directly into a rep system and not doing as much post sorting based on votes) but voting can still help differentiate posts in a discussion worth reading from those worth skipping as well as other factors. Case in points: Slashdot, Reddit, Disqus, et al. Voting itself isn't the problem nor do I think removing it is a blanket solution. | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 15:06 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | It's not a discussion forum. Even questions on controversial topics can be answered based on sources, reasoning, etc, and voting supports that -- if we can get people to stop misusing it. I'd rather fix the behavior than change platforms. Thanks. | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 13:58 | history | answered | Philipp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |