Why I like saidit. It doesn't have downvotes, and that is pro free-speech. When you have downvotes that discourages people from speaking up. We don't need downvotes. If someone says something dumb here, then it just won't rise up, and that's enough. There doesn't need to be double punishment.

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[–]Trajan 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The only decent downvote system I’ve seen is at Slashdot, where moderation points are allocated semi-randomly to users based on their activities on the site. There’s also a meta-moderation thing, where users rate the quality of the votes. It’s far more difficult to have the Reddit situation in which people downvote as disagreement or dogpile once they see a few votes already made.

[–]sproketboy 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree although slashdot is a shell of it's former self. I had excellent karma for 20 years until I complained about China a few times. Now my karma is "bad". Good riddance.

[–]Trajan 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed. I left for a few reasons.

  1. Shit ‘editors’ choosing stories with click bait potential over actually interesting stories.
  2. Shit ‘editors’ who wouldn’t even check for broken links let alone correct serious factual errors in story summaries.
  3. Terrible mobile site that even today is utterly shit. Want to reply to a comment, then get back to where you were in a long thread? Slashdot says NO!
  4. Annoying UI changes to the site that make it worse while ignoring the actual under-the-hood problems. Slashdot still doesn’t support UTF-8, meaning that anything but American English characters (e.g. £) gets rendered as escape sequences. Kind of embarrassing for a site that used to attract coders.
  5. Too many normies and a resulting decline in interesting technical stories.

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Eh, There are people who create 30 accounts, use them to mod each other up, and then use the flood of mod points to attempt to control the site. There used to be cabals of them, but the constant waves of far left propaganda drove off so many users that I don't know if anyone bothers any more.

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

Some people have too much time on their hands and too little of value in their lives.