What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I’m not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?

I never vote up or down on here in the same manner that I never click Like on any social media sites either, I don’t see what the intent behind it is.

  • sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca
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    The idea is to gauge community interest/relevance and facilitate content discovery. I feel it is becoming a bit dated method of accomplishing this and easily gamed.

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      Yeah, there’s a sweet spot where it works, but once you get a large usercount, it becomes a bit snowbally. Get a few early upvotes, and you’re off! Don’t get those upvotes early? It’s gone, drowned away in the flood, even if the post was good. There’s an element of luck that I’m not sure can, or should be, elminated.

      What the modern big sites do with algo’s that read your interests, has a more cons, still. As far as a lesser of two evils, I like the vote system as a content curation system the best.

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      Dated, but has anyone come up with a better way? Outside of having another human carefully curate your shit, or some kind of Zuckerbot doing it, you need some way to filter out bullshit or any community will be overwhelmed with spam and trolls

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        1 year ago

        You’re right, there is only up/down vote systems with a user base that is in no way verified or otherwise restricted to a single vote/real person, or corporate algos.

        There are plenty of different models. Do I fault the Lemmy devs for using it? No. Is it ideal for content discovery? Not really.

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          No need for sarcasm – I was ASKING if there were other ways outside of up/downvotes, AI moderation, manual/human curation, or no moderation. Hence question mark.

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            You’re right. Apologies.

            There are many other models, some discussed in this post. All come with their own set of upsides and downsides.

            For a small community, which Lemmy original was, straight up votes work great. Unfortunately it doesn’t scale. Reddit is a perfect example.