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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[–] DrQuint 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wish the system existed as is but was 100% hidden except for the OP.

It's cool to know that a topic got a hundred thousand upvotes and was the highlight of the day.

But there's literally no reason to know if someone is currently being brigaded or boosted, it just preempts and primes what judgement they receive. Remove that, and ragedownvotes are gone as people who do it will exercise no power and no influence.

Lemmy already has another improvement: We can see who's downvoting you. Every downvote is public and comes with names. So if you personally brigaded, you can go to the admin with evidence and those people will get their vote rights removed, or will get outright banned. But I still think that's not enough. The "this person has a bad score, I'll downvote then" is bad and should really not be a thing, I wish we just removed it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The chapo fork just got rid of downvotes entirely