There’s so much spam, and people diligently downvote. But the posts are still shown, with -53 votes or something.
When a post is clearly unwanted, could it be hidden?
I think this could have utility. But I’m in many communities that are just automatically downvoted by the people outside the community. So my communities would get even less interaction than they currently get
It would be nice to count votes only by people who are subscribers or comment in a community, but that’s probably going to be a larger lemmy feature that’s going to take time to develop
“Reddit is fun” had a feature with a vote threshold, it was something like “don’t show posts with a score lower than ___.”
This would be tremendously useful to have in Voyager. As an improvement, that setting could have a sub-setting, a list of communities where this setting does not apply.
I would probably want this in some sort of score/percentage mix. Like if a post had 15 upvotes and 20 downvotes, I would probably still want to see it as it just means it’s something controversial rather than low effort/quality. However going off of percentage alone wouldn’t work well in the beginning if it was immediately downvoted two or three times.
So probably more like:
score lower than {user_defined_low_score} AND score % less than {user_defined_low_percent}We could also probably apply this to comment scores as well so we can avoid having to look at 2 users being petty towards each other… like what played out in one of the other replies to this comment.
I agree, this would be a bad setting to have before the platform fixes the broader issue.
There are lots of reasons people downvote things and for many communities it has nothing to do with that community’s content quality. Until communities can opt out of inclusion in the All list it’s just going to disappear communities for people.
yes please. let the users set a threshold. I mean slashdot had it before people where using the term social media.
Yeah, leave it to people to tell you what is good or not… Great fuckin idea…
Thank you for illustrating why this proposal would be a good feature.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
I look up reviews before buying a product. If a few dozen people think something is crap, why should it pop up in my feed? I’m not buying every product just so I can form my own opinions on all of them.
Wow did you just try to analogize buying something from amazon and reading an online forum?
Oh yeah, 100% the same thing
Jfc
