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[–]ClockworkFoolKiA Old Guard 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

So, no up and down voting, just fun and/or insightful?

Ugh, change.

[–]DomitiusOfMassilia[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They don't believe in downvoting I guess. Meh. I'm actually okay with the idea because I think all concepts have some value for someone. Downvoting does technically hide that.

[–]ClockworkFoolKiA Old Guard 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If this place is fluffy enough to think downvoting is too mean, it does make me wonder if this place is genuinely likely to be a more legitimate bastion of Free Speech, or whether they'd be ideologically robust enough to even attempt to withstand outside voices calling for censorship.

But eh, there's only one way to really find out. Wait and see.

[–]LithargoelKiA Old Guard 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Depends on how rigorously one enforces their "Pyramid of Debate. That has its own set of mountain-like ranges to overcome vs. "reddit hordes' mentality" for 15 years of upvoting/downvoting being 1:1 agree/disagree, despite what the Official Rules over there say. Seriously, as noble a pursuit is as guiding and shaping the thought process behind communicating on an internet forum with an abstraction divided into "insightful:fun" (wtf even, "fun"... if that's the best you can come up with, it should point to the problem of your system already) to REPLACE an abstraction divided into up:down -votes with supposed meaningful thought put behind the decision to click one or the other... it's most probably going to be a failure.