My Thoughts on What's Wrong with Saidit

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[–]Chipit 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

I submit stuff all the time and 2/3 sits at one vote (mine) and never moves. It disappears without a trace.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Then possibly the problem is people aren't voting enough when lurking for the stuff they do want to see.

Possibility people should consider voting insightful for stuff which they don't necessarily agree with but is interesting or well argued rather than using that function as an ideology adherence/popularity indicator.

[–]Nemesis[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

It's funny, I would actually hold you up as an example of what a "prolific user" should be, thank you for swinging by. I don't necessarily object to people posting a lot, but rather that most people that post a lot put no effort into their posting, and are playing a numbers game to get attention. When I look at your posts, your titles have your actual opinion and thoughts, you show up in comments and discuss, and the articles/videos are interesting. I share your frustration that a good article will have to get lucky to be seen by casual users, because instead some quote pic just controversial enough to get votes will consume the attention of people hanging around new.

[–]SaidOverRed 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

This is what happens when too much 'block user' button is invoked by too many people. I'm not saying don't fling mud on people. You've flung it on me, and I've flung some back.

But you also might say something insightful. I've given you tons of karma. So a block would deprive me of potentially valuable posts later. I'm not sure where I was going with this.