Subj : Re: Versions
To   : echicken
From : MRO
Date : Tue Jan 11 2022 11:50:41

  Re: Re: Versions
  By: echicken to Sys64738 on Tue Jan 11 2022 05:02 pm

 >  Sy> Exactly. Did anyone really lose or gain anything from the vote
 >  Sy> regardless if it was up or down?
 >
 > In reality it doesn't do much. Votes here are mostly a way of saying "I
 >
 > saw
 > and liked/disliked your message" without having to write out a reply.
 >
 > If the voting feature was more widely-used, then we could use votes for
 > sorting, showing, hiding messages, but there just isn't enough uptake to
 > make that worthwhile at the moment.

These are bbses, not reddit.

Over time the vote feature on reddit has been abused to hide comments that
arent part of that communities view point.  not hostile posts, just ones that people 'don't like'. When you  dont have the regular guys, there's people running multiple year old bots that can really 'take out' someone they don't like with downvotes and reporting.

at first the reddit voting system worked, but like anything it got taken over and perverted.

back to bbses, i feel this voting thing was interesting in concept, but when implimented it just didn't pan out.  bbs people dont want to vote or upvote or downvote posts.

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