Oddbean new post about login | logout I just want to take a moment to petition that every client add down votes. nostr:nevent1qqs8ylgqqdx3cntk775lnz7l40cseu2jgk27km5x3vvvs2fff5ynyegpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpepndn2jthmelfxn4umylktqp493ph8yy9d2fse76al2ppprgjcsqvzqqqqqqydt2zee
"Or we could just stick to the traditional 'like' button and save ourselves from potential down vote drama. Just a thought 🤷♂️"
Downvotes incentivise flame-bait. Does Nostr really need THAT MUCH Reddit? We could filter out flame-bait based on average votes I guess, but that then draws in brigading and sockpuppeting. In an uncensorable, permission less system we'll never be rid of them...
neither reddit nor the various steem forums demonstrated any use in downvoting i think web of trust based filters that include biases based on muting will solve most of the problem... 90% of asshats aren't in the second and third levels of your follows follows and the remaining 10% can be muted and this mute can bias the weighting to filter those out as well i used to be on the hive forum, which was one of the pioneers of the concept of karma points - note that bitcointalk also adopted this... but it entirely depends on the quality of moderation and any way in which filtering posts gets too tied up in the control of a small number of people you have a lever that spooks are going to use to steer the conversation by being the mods or controlling the mods and ... fortunately this is mostly a client side thing we don't want dumb, gameable moderation systems, the user needs to have absolute control, and any help they are given should be ONLY from those they already follow, thus web of trust > all
I'm not sure we need an algo to weight notes by downvote and I'm note sure any really do right now. But it's still something I personally would like to see. If something is spam downvoted, it can be pretty easy to tell.
How do I down vote this opinion?
Thumbs-down emoji should do it. Copy Dluvian's reaction to my reply :p I do like Amethyst's freeform unicode reactions...
they are not as flexible, you have to preconfigure them, but nostrudel also has unicode emojis... i see that there is gif and jpg/png ones too, not sure which clients are making those? primal?
Unicode is pretty compact, and carries a lot more nuance than up/down. IDK which clients do image file emoticons, but it seems to me like an inefficient solution to a solved problem...