Posted Jul 23, 2022, 7:41 PM UTC
It’s just people exercising their own expression. Neutral engagement filter is the key.
What is a neutral engagement filter?
A way to view a thread without up/down votes influencing the feed. Discussions.app has a setting like this.
Reddit ranks comments by popularity. If you piss off an ideological group your popularity score will suffer.
A solution to this is give people control over who's votes are included. Let people filter out votes from whichever ideology they want, conservatives, democrats, christians, atheists, new accounts, etc.
If people who post in r/conservative are down voting people in r/twoxchromosomes based on an ideology you dislike then you can just filter out those votes.
the fact you wrote this comment is fucking sad
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I know what you mean. However, notice that there are cases where the massively downvoted takes obviously resonated a lot with people outside of the hive mind because they were given awards (you know, gold, silver, wholesome seal, etc). Not-so-unpopular unpopular opinions, if you like.
IIRC, there's actually a sub that features instances of that happening (NegativeButAwarded, or something like that NegativeWithGold).
And someone just downvoted this... 🤣
Honestly they should just get rid of the whole downvote system or hide downvotes. Right now, the way it works on Reddit is if you go against what the majority of that subreddits mood is that day, you will get downvoted into oblivion, regardless if what you said was actually true or not, you can't even provide constructive criticism or even ask questions sometimes. People literally have the power to censor your comments/opinions/criticisms/etc if it goes against what THEY believe, even if they aren't right or true. Some subreddits are definitely worse than others.
But hell, I ALWAYS make sure to speak my mind when I deem it necessary, as long as I'm not rude to other people about it, I dont even care about karma, I just refuse to mindlessly go along with whatever the majority of that subreddits trend is. I find it annoying as hell cause it's like people lack any identity, as if they all literally just mindlessly think and talk exactly alike.
Truth.
Yes !!
the problem is teenagers
I second this, it doesn't help that technology has advanced so fast, and that parents have gotten worse with handling their kids and would rather just give them iPhone's and iPad's to shut them up rather than actually having to take care of them and watch after them and provide proper parental supervision. Which probably means a whole lot more kids and teenagers being annoying online, but that's a whole other problem. (I have a sister that neglects her kids, and have witnessed multiple parents do this too.)
I'm fourteen but I'm an exception, reddit has just made me a lot more mature and paranoid than my classmates, don't go through and read my post history though, this is the account I kid of gave up with, now I'm on aether: https://getaether.net/, it's easily the best most stable reddit alternative out there.
it's a conundrum. the zombie attachment to phones in public makes them quiet. but then they're freaking out in my online spaces.
Im a teenager but not one to jump on thr mass downvote and target someone for their opinion bandwagon
Good on you, atleast you are smart enough to think for yourself.
Our people need a new homeland lol.
No moderation without representation 😂
What is a moderation with representation?
The opposite of power mods
saidit.net doesn't have downvotes for this exact reason
Welcome to the internet
People downvote anything they disagree with. Most redditors agree on everything or they're pushed away.
An up/down-vote could have a lot of meanings, from "good point" to "I want to make this idea more/less prominent". The system on reddit (and most social media) doesn't really allow for such subtlety. I see no problem with people trying to amplify a message that they think is underappreciated... but it becomes a problem when that's all we do. And it's too easy for brigades to abuse this power.
And it's too easy for brigades to abuse this power.
I think that this site actually has an anti-brigade system in place for that reason. If you try to up- or downvote comments on a sub that you don't actively post comments on yourself, and refresh the page, you'll see that they don't count. Still doesn't stop brigades forming within communities themselves, though.
It's good that they do that. I only made that comment because I've seen weird situations that seem "brigady" -- like where I make a 4th-level comment, and one day later it has a +6 score, but two days later it has -20. I've seen swings like that in both directions -- maybe it's natural, but it seems like the discussion got swarmed by people who like pressing the vote button.
Oh, so that's why one of my posts in DCIC got down voted so hard in spite of it being related to censorship. 🥴
I use to hear the term hive mind used more often.
Back in the day we used to vote on things based on what that added to the conversation, not wether or not we personally agreed with it
Yeah yeah I remember now come and join aether: https://getaether.net/.
Classic reddit, come to aether people seem way more smart here: https://getaether.net/.
r/philippines lol
Pfft, does a true sigma like me look like I care what the hivemind thinks? That was rhetorical, and to further prove my point here is my daily schedule so you can get an idea how married to my own success I am:
2:00 am- Wake up
2.05am-Cold shower
2.15am-breakfast,almonds, breast milk bought off Facebook, 50mg adderall
2:30am- begin workout,incline bench 2 plates,12x12 with 30 seconds of rest, no warmup.
2:45am-edging,4hrs (for disipline)
6:45am-cold shower
7:00am-begin sprint to work
8:00am-arrive at work
8:05am-get called into boss' office
8:06am-get fired from job for "repeated inappropriate comments" and "predatory behaviour"
8:10am-sprint back home
9:10am- lunch-raw cod, berries foraged on the way home, small pebbles (for digestion),50mg of adderal
9:10am-edging(as punishment)
3:00pm- bed time
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Censorship doesn't come as black bars over text anymore, It comes from us enforcing ideologies on each other. When we become our own thought police, The ones who want control win.