Upvotes/downvotes shouldn’t reflect how much you agree with the content. It should be a metric for whether it adds something of value to the fediverse.
Otherwise, default sort would just be an echo chamber.
Is agreement and humor not a value? I, myself, put a lot of value into whoever can make me laugh in this day and age… And location. Hell, even getting me to slightly let air out of my nose is massively appreciated these days.
That could be its own interesting question too; I imagine pragmatic case-use will differ with a significant portion of the userbase treating them as likes/dislikes.
Upvotes/downvotes shouldn’t reflect how much you agree with the content. It should be a metric for whether it adds something of value to the fediverse.
Otherwise, default sort would just be an echo chamber.
Is agreement and humor not a value? I, myself, put a lot of value into whoever can make me laugh in this day and age… And location. Hell, even getting me to slightly let air out of my nose is massively appreciated these days.
I vote for visibility.
I agree with your highest upvoted comment
It was supposed to be that way on Reddit too, but everyone just treated them like like/dislike buttons instead.
That could be its own interesting question too; I imagine pragmatic case-use will differ with a significant portion of the userbase treating them as likes/dislikes.