how much has saidit grown in these few days?

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[–]Bitchcraft 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Well tanks for working on saidit. I really hope that this place will not go the way of voat. Among the "alternative reddits" I've seen so far, this is the most promising.

[–]Wahwah 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

What is so wrong about Voat? Genuinely curious.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I did a little investigating yesterday. One of the top posts on the main Voat page yesterday was someone claiming 99% of all porn is posted by the Jews. I clicked to see if anyone was going to challenge such obviously made-up bullshit. No source. No evidence.

Nope. Everyone was happy to agree with how bad those damn degenerates were.

Further investigation (not on the page after that) showed the echo chamber effects on the site are really bad. Like downvotes get you put in time-outs and such. Just a bubble reality where people believe whatever they want to believe.

[–]Wahwah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So the real issue with voat is downvote? Any attempt to promote content other than their preferred narratives get shunned. I never liked the idea of downvote anyway -in the sense it comes with penalties. Such as losing karma or being sidelined. If one wants to disagree than surely the can but that shouldn't come with penalties.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think it's all tied together. If they didn't have the downvote system they had, it wouldn't have gotten so out of hand. But out of hand it is.

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

I think it's all tied together. If they didn't have the downvote system they had, it wouldn't have gotten so out of hand. But out of hand it is.

Well, from what folks have been describing I think more moderate content would've probably had a chance.

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

So the real issue with voat is downvote?

The issue is not the downvote but how the system reacts to down votes. Down votes combined with up votes are a really good measure of a post. If a post has nothing but downvotes it is near 100% worthless but if it has lots of up and down votes it could be really good. Have a look at posts on Notabug where anon can vote as many times as they like.