Fair enough but the fact that there’s “scores” for a comment still seems wrong to me. Having a number next to someone’s comment is gonna have a psychological impact even if you try to fight it consciously. It promotes the dictatorship of the hivemind - say the things that most people agree with or face the wrath of the downvotes.
IMO that stiffles the conversation because I imagine a lot of people learn in time what is “ok” to say and what is not and then act accordingly. I myself have many times stopped myself from posting a comment because I knew it will not be agreed upon and I didn’t want to face that.
Also, I edited the comment. When I said top comment, I meant a higher level (e.g. a reply to the thread, instead of reply to a comment). You can’t fix that by reordering comment chains around, the only solution is to serialize them like in old school forums (and show a quote block or similar).
I agree with you on how reddit orders comments but Lemmy uses a completely different algorithm to do that so that new comments don’t get buried.
Fair enough but the fact that there’s “scores” for a comment still seems wrong to me. Having a number next to someone’s comment is gonna have a psychological impact even if you try to fight it consciously. It promotes the dictatorship of the hivemind - say the things that most people agree with or face the wrath of the downvotes.
IMO that stiffles the conversation because I imagine a lot of people learn in time what is “ok” to say and what is not and then act accordingly. I myself have many times stopped myself from posting a comment because I knew it will not be agreed upon and I didn’t want to face that.
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Also, I edited the comment. When I said top comment, I meant a higher level (e.g. a reply to the thread, instead of reply to a comment). You can’t fix that by reordering comment chains around, the only solution is to serialize them like in old school forums (and show a quote block or similar).