Free Speech and Offensive Content

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

Reddit has already shown us how absolutely evil downvotes are.

IFIFY:
Reddit has already shown us how absolutely evil downvotes subtracted from upvotes are.

YouTube shows the up AND downvotes for a very useful ratio. Oddly, not in the comments. And YouTube censorship is another problem altogether.

What you could do instead is have a bigotry toggle for each sub. Admins could toggle the bigotry tag on for subs that allow bigotry and users could filter out subs with the bigotry tag if they choose to.

This would be fantastic for any and all metatags. But that's an entirely different rewrite beast.

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

    While I don't care about the the free speech or bigotry aspects, because I don't need protective safe spaces, I do recognize that I also don't want gore on my screen while I'm eating. More importantly I would love for things to be more organized, even if most people are lazy and won't bother much with new systems, at least for a while. It would be worth determining what people are actually interested in using metatags for - and of course figuring out how to theoretically best apply it so that perhaps the code jockeys can implement it.

    I'm guessing metatags might be akin to flair. Perhaps they can just improve flair labels somehow.