SaidIt clone design?

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[–]humancorpse 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (6 children)

where did everyone get this idea that we need to have people vote on posts?

If i post something where i am looking for information about how to rebuild a transmission for a tractor, and people downvote it... what the fuck good is that?

voting on posts or comments is really most useful for sites like reddit that like to squelch certain types of conversations.

when the majority of people design some thing, they simply make alterations to that which is already in existence.

To make something original requires a creative intelligence, which the majority of people do not possess.

good luck with your reddit clone.

[–]raven9 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

where did everyone get this idea that we need to have people vote on posts?

It was supposed to create a system where the users votes create a list of the best posts but we can see by what happened at reddit how easily that system is corrupted.

[–]humancorpse 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

my question was intended to be of a rhetorical flavor, i was not really looking for a response. Not intending to be rude, of course. Voting up or down of posts was a bad idea from the beginning. Voting serves those that want to censor topics. There are other options, and only those that are creative will seek out and implement these new methods.

The current social media models will be phased out.

[–]thefirststone 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Downvotes don't have to be used to hide things the mob disagrees with, and to throttle or ban users. It used to be common and useful to sort posts or comments by "controversial" on Reddit precisely because it gives you information Saidit doesn't use. But the site doesn't have to use it like Reddit and Voat did. It can just be displayed.

[–]humancorpse 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

The one constant in this world is change. The current social media model will be phased out.

[–]thefirststone 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Most social media only allows users to "like", similar to Saidit.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes!