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If you're a reddit 'refugee,' why did you leave?
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[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (4 children)
I agree. I think the up/down vote system puts people in a judging approve/disapprove kind of mindset, and that encourages cultural tribalism. People start "thinking" with their emotions rather than logic.
[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (3 children)
Emotions trump logic for most of the population.
[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
I agree, and also certain aspects of culture reinforce those bad habits instead of trying to tamp them down. Emotional people are easier to control, because they're less capable of subtlety in strategy
[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
Psychological warfare targeting the unconscious by the enemy. In the declassified papers I read, and don't think corproate entities liek reddit are not using these sort of tactics.
In spite of censorship a certain amount of material “unconsciously slips by because at face value it seems irrelevant or insignificant.”
The downvoting button is one way in which to do just this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150116133924/http://mikemcclaughry.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/aims-of-psychological-warfare.pdf
[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
Right. And I don't think it was necessarily planned that way, it just turned out that way. But now we know better because the downfalls of the up/downvote system have become obvious, so we have saidit's voting system as a next evolution.
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