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[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Sometimes funny things are insightful, sometimes they aren't. Just vote with what feels right.

[–]ColdRoland 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Are you basing the authenticity of the post votes on the users integrity?

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

What do you mean exactly?

[–]ColdRoland 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

How can you know that people aren't "Up-bulbed and funnied for maximum boosting!" instead of using the insightful/funny votes to help discern between serious and non-serious posts?

Are you trusting the users to not abuse the system?

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

Yeah? Of course some will abuse it, but most won't and it'll still be a useful thing

[–]ColdRoland 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

Just vote with what feels right.

I feel that you've added to the discussion but didn't see my point so I'll award you 1/2 point for your effort.

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

No system is 100% perfect for all situations. The Saidit voting system is non-punative.

Just vote with what feels right.

You have been white-faced.

White-facing you just felt right.

[–]ColdRoland 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

No system is 100% perfect for all situations. The Saidit voting system is non-punative.

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/6w4/are_the_trolls_here_now_last_night_someone_took/

This poster sure felt otherwise.

You have been white-faced. White-facing you just felt right.

Ah, now I get it. No matter if you find my comments insightful, funny or even ridiculous - Thanks for the visibility boost, 1/2 a point is better than no point!

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

There are no half points. You still get a full point.

 

Also, I suppose that getting white-faced or black-faced really depends on whether you're using night mode, or not. I always use night mode.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Was it funny? then why vote it funny? They're sorted differently...

[–]ColdRoland 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yes, and hence my surreal reply as an attempt at being ridiculous as well (which in turn got its own funny vote).

Perhaps my kind of humour allows me to see the potential hilarity in trusting the behaviour of anonymous internet users and yours don't?

Perhaps your kind of humour doesn't include chuckling at half a point in a 1 and/or 2 point system?

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There is no better system though. The votes have to come from somewhere... at some point we have to trust the user or there would be no voting at all. People can still be removed if they're bringing the quality of saidit down as per the pyramid of debate. What is your proposed solution?

[–]ColdRoland 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What is your proposed solution?

Make it so users can only give one vote.

I think this post is, as an artistic piece fun, playful and entertaining, while the concept is very thought provoking to me. Funny and insightful.

Does the dual qualities justify the 50% higher visibility compared to this post, which I'd argue is of equal or higher quality?

In my opinion, no. With a single vote, both would get the insightful one and equal visibility while a post like this would get a funny vote. And one can block the sub if one doesn't want jokes, cat pics and funny videos or what ever through RESaidit I assume?

Right now we have the possibility to boost for visibility, three people voting that video as insightful and no way to get rid of funny or thinky posts if one want - Something a decent moderation of subs dedicated to funny OR insightful posts will allow for.

There's also the point about it being misunderstood as ridicule on a pedestal and giving ones only vote as "lol" on a post about the holocaust surely cements the troll factor, but you've already replied to that, trollvoting only helps the post.