I’m kinda against super-downvotes, but you’ll be able to do this once we get reports implemented. To me, I’d much rather have a panel where mods and admins can see things with high downvote ratios, since its possibel some kind of action needs to be taken there.
I still recommend the idea of voting, creating posts and creating communities being gatekept behind a small, certain amount of participation. Invisible sockpuppets are trying to manipulate posts here for a good while, and it has been long since I am recommending it to avoid the problems. Even reddit has this system in a limited manner.
I agree with your sentiment, but I think it is important to acknowledge that this isn’t so much a “super-downvote” but a vote in another dimension. Downvotes don’t differentiate between “non-interesting” and “malicious”.
That being said I think downvote ratio + poster history is probably enough to infer the difference between boring and spam so I don’t think the added complexity of a “Junk” button is worth it.
that this isn’t so much a “super-downvote” but a vote in another dimension. Downvotes don’t differentiate between “non-interesting” and “malicious”.
It works in theory but generally people don’t use these features as intended. Even downvotes which usually should mean “this is irrelevant to the discussion” most of the time are used as “I don’t agree with this”.
I’m kinda against super-downvotes, but you’ll be able to do this once we get reports implemented. To me, I’d much rather have a panel where mods and admins can see things with high downvote ratios, since its possibel some kind of action needs to be taken there.
I still recommend the idea of voting, creating posts and creating communities being gatekept behind a small, certain amount of participation. Invisible sockpuppets are trying to manipulate posts here for a good while, and it has been long since I am recommending it to avoid the problems. Even reddit has this system in a limited manner.
I agree with your sentiment, but I think it is important to acknowledge that this isn’t so much a “super-downvote” but a vote in another dimension. Downvotes don’t differentiate between “non-interesting” and “malicious”.
That being said I think downvote ratio + poster history is probably enough to infer the difference between boring and spam so I don’t think the added complexity of a “Junk” button is worth it.
It works in theory but generally people don’t use these features as intended. Even downvotes which usually should mean “this is irrelevant to the discussion” most of the time are used as “I don’t agree with this”.