Both of these, especially together, created a chilling effect on open discussion. People would even delete their posts to preserve their karma.
Even when you’re reading someone else’s comments, it’s delightfully difficult to cyberstalk them. “Sort by controversial” or “sort by negative” were great ways to find the least popular thing anyone said and smugly quote it years later.
Sure, there’s third-party sites where you can see all that and more, but I’m not tempted to use them, and they reveal their users as losers.
I hope we never change the Lemmy upvotes.
Both of these, especially together, created a chilling effect on open discussion. People would even delete their posts to preserve their karma.
Even when you’re reading someone else’s comments, it’s delightfully difficult to cyberstalk them. “Sort by controversial” or “sort by negative” were great ways to find the least popular thing anyone said and smugly quote it years later.
Sure, there’s third-party sites where you can see all that and more, but I’m not tempted to use them, and they reveal their users as losers.
Edit: to the downvoters, jk I don’t care