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Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth::Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        What would it do? If it didn’t do anything, people would just use the downvote button

    • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      You remove the downvote button. Or maybe instead of points you only allow stickers/emoticon reactions.

        • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          Yup, perfect example of the problem. An on-topic comment adding to the discussion. Sure maybe not the ultimate solution but a valid point to consider.

      • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        That’s similar to how slashdot modpoints worked, although both upvotes and downvotes were limited. IMO it was one of the better self moderation systems I’ve seen.

        I do personally wish people were a bit more thoughtful before downvoting, and making them a limited resource could help with that. It could also encourage sock-puppeting if not implemented very carefully, though.

        • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          I was thinking about slashdot modpoints too - it did seem to result in better discussion, but maybe everything was better in those days/in my rose-tinted spectacles. (And at this point I cba going back to check…)

          There were some oddnesses - I remember someone’s signature was “The difference between ‘Interesting’ and ‘Insightful’ is whether you agree” which always rang very true to me. Separating upvotes for “funny”, “I agree” and “I find this interesting” is already pretty handy though.

          I think there’s no way to prevent people from downvoting what they disagree with - but maybe if you provided downvotes for “this is wrong” and “this is trolling” people could have an option to ignore the “this is wrong” downvotes and get more diverse opinions.

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        This is a nice idea that I’ve seen before, but also one that sort of needs a centralized platform to work well

        • nexusband@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          What the hell is “alt/brigade”?? I mean, as a German I know I’m getting old, you don’t have to rub it in…but I don’t think that’s the meaning of this