I’ve been really enjoying my time here lately and I have noticed things.

  1. discussions are more chill. On Reddit people would get into flame wars over things and here while it happens it’s not as bad, and I actually enjoy spending time here.

  2. people are nicer.

  3. moderation is amazing.

  4. diversity in thoughts is also amazing.

EDIT:

Image is made by me, please credit me if you use it. Other than that, it’s on a ‘do what you fucking want’ license. Meaning, have fun and do what you want with it, I’m not your mom!

  • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 年前

    Yeah, it took me a while to realize that broadcast content (things like YouTube) ca. benefit from downvotes (as it allows misinformation to be pushed down), it isn’t very useful in a discussion format.

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 年前

      It still very much was, solely within the scope of disinformation on subs I was on. It just also had unexpected consequences.

      • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 年前

        I’ve mostly just found that having downvotes ends up discouraging discussion (which is often the states reason for disabling them). With passive media that is already the normal state.

        • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
          4·
          2 年前

          I only subbed to interests/hobbies and low-volume cute stuff, so I didn’t really get the full effect. I’ve seen it used to make a disliked-by-some valid point disappear, but maybe 1-4 times a year? It certainly wasn’t high on my list of Reddit vexes.

          • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 年前

            Yeah, it’s not something I really saw in small communities, but once things get to what I’d think of as medium sized it started to be a problem.