You just unlocked the bad end

Big Chungus is WW2 canon

I kind of preferred not putting a face on goatse.

Kind of kept the humanity out of it. Now it’s real.

I want a fediverse dating sim

I’m not American, but surely going down 8 points isn’t that bad, right?

This meme is definitely made by someone who doesn’t have or know kids.

They’re walking smell bombs

The US v Canada proxy war was not something I was expecting

Yes, but it’s significantly worse in an actual market crash.

Stock market crash means a lot of people lose their jobs, including people living paycheck to paycheck

Normal

Well, I kind of disagree with the up/down votes being inherently bad, as they more front-load early posting rather than accurate posting. Meaning early engagement is likely to have higher upvotes rather than engagement which is factual and well thought out. This incentivizes much more emotional and meme posting.

I’ve seen it happen time and time again on Reddit and even here: someone makes post, bunch of people react only to the headline, or spread misinformation, and by the time nuanced posts and thought out posts are made, engagement has plummeted and people have moved on to the next thing.

I think the only way to really fix this is to make votes a limited asset that accounts have. There are forums where this has worked okay: bodybuilding.com forums has a reputation system where accounts are limited in what they can give to other voters.

As long as “karma” is unlimited it suffers from the same problems whether you count it in aggregate or not. As some other commenters have said, people still seek validation in individual comments. I know because I do too.

Interestingly i followed up on the prompt and it was self aware enough to say it was stupid to flag it, but that it was something in its backend flagging “balancing” as the problem prompt

Shut up Ars

Surely by now this is one of Nintendo’s most well known facts?

A good IT is blocking ads at a company-level. Browser extensions wouldn’t matter, and in fact, shouldn’t be allowed for the same reason.

You’re right. Reddit was naive to expect that people would give a positive value to something they inherently disagreed with.

Of course, now they’re going to punish people who agree with things that Reddit doesn’t agree with.

No, originally they were supposed to be for content that contributes and added value, even if you didn’t agree:

But the amount of “came here to say this” and “haha epic updoot for you sir” has made it pretty clear that the karma whoring was for agreement.

It’s the reason there are echo chambers now.

Don’t get me wrong, the original intent of the upvote/downvote system died a year or two after Reddit started, but Reddit always maintained that upvotes and downvotes weren’t for agreement.

Reddit finally admits that upvotes and downvotes are for agreement and disagreement.

Most of these also say “I’m a terrible fucking driver”