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sub specific upvote downvote rules? (self.fediverse)
submitted 1 year ago by PutangInaMo to c/fediverse
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I think that most folks use upvote/ downvote as an v agree/ disagree. But maybe there could be, in the long run, a place where other votes could be made. Dm it's more like a song quality system, maybe similar to customer support reviews you get agree after dealing with a customer support call .

I.e. rates under multiple fields like below:

  1. Votes for meeting community guideline
  2. Votes for quality of content posted
  3. Votes identifying spam or other third party links that draw users into other platforms (only fans for now, but could be more nefarious as it grows)
  4. Troll downvote 5.??

A weight system would have to back that up to be able to provide an overall vote/downvote.

I know it's overkill, but it's a random thought I had that will hopefully garnet enough attention to spark conversation some how this place can provide an abstraction and something different from what most of these platforms currently provide. It isn't insightful, we see up and down Votes but don't um understand the reasoning behind them.

Consider it a couch thought. Happy to have others chime in on the good and bad reasons for this to exist or get thrown in the thoughts can.

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

That’s an interesting thought, and could have some merit. Two issues I see with it - the first is that all instances would have to be on board. It’d have to be accepted and used across all Lemmy instances as a core Lemmy feature for it to be effective. The second is that some of those bad votes already fall into reporting territory. I don’t know what the reporting system is like on desktop but on my app it’s only a text box to report. Reddit had what I thought was a good system that was preset reports for site-wide and then subreddit specific rules. I think a robust reporting system (and again, maybe there is one or there’s one in the works) could handle spam, troll, or bot posts.

[–] Tarh 1 points 1 year ago

There is some academic research on internet voting system that aim to be troll and bot resistant and be overall better. There is a website that allow to vote for Youtube video here : https://tournesol.app/ . If you are good in mathematics, the research papers may be interesting.

That's a kind of voting mechanism that I'll love seeing implemented in the Fediverse