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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

It's not even just "the first" post. Lemmy is exactly like Reddit where any comments or posts, no matter how high quality, that can be interpreted as "against the grain" will be attacked. Lemmy has the same strong tendency towards group think that Reddit does, it's just lower volume and the bias runs even farther left. Shrug.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunate but true, I wonder if it's the upvote system on comment threads

[–] thehatfox 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rationing downvotes could help break the groupthink while still providing a crowdsourced method of controlling spam and trolls. Other platforms have systems like this and it seems to work.

I think there have been some Lemmy instances that disable downvotes entirely also.

[–] grue 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I still miss Slashdot's moderation (and meta-moderation) system.

For those who don't know, Slashdot comments are scored in a range of [-1, +5] and upvotes and downvotes have a reason attached (e.g. +1 insightful, +1 funny, -1 troll). Users are given a very limited pool of votes to hand out, which are allotted according to a secret formula based on karma and maybe meta-moderation. Meta-moderation is a volunteer task where you're given an anonymized list of comments and mod votes, and asked whether you agree with reach of them or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Interesting, thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Occasionally see something similar in real life, run a bar n grill. Just the other night had to tell that crew that I do have a menu, after the 6th order from the same table for dry ribs. Had the first guy ordered wings or a burger, same thing would have happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Most noticeable when you mention neutral and verified facts in partisan threads