- cross-posted to:
- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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This is one of those things that’s doomed to fail. The vast majority of people will always upvote/downvote based on agreement or general feelings.
The number of people who upvote something they don’t like will always be insignificant.
You’re probably right. But I feel like that’s learned behavior because over on Reddit and Twitter, likes and upvotes/downvotes held so much sway over the algorithm because that’s what advertisers wanted, here there are no advertisers, so why not fix the shitty training they forced on us?
It’s not training. It’s quite intuitive. Voting for/against something is common in many scenarios, not just from Reddit. And most people will associate up with good and down with bad.
If you like something, you want to reward it, and if you dislike something, you want to do the opposite.
With the vote buttons right there, it was inevitable this is how it would end up.
Even more logically, people know that higher-voted items get more visibility and lower-voted items get less, so if you like something you’re more likely to want others to see it. Therefore, upvote it to send it higher up the tree. And send it down to hide it.
