I never agreed with their karma system anyway. Such a setup would always devolve into a popularity contest using the buttons as agree/disagree. If I were making a media platform with reputation and ranking for content filtering, it would have two distinct scoring systems: Reactions vs. Merit
Reactions are basically thumbs up or thumbs down. What YouTube, Facebook, and most other websites have. I'd even mix those faggoty reddit awards in here too. So you can thumbs up, thumbs down, or add a stupid emoji. Thumbs down would hide or downrank the comment on the page. This satisfies the primal need people have to be a peanut gallery and cheer people on, or shout them down. This would be the first and only voting system most people ever see. Content would be ranked by this system only within it's Merit Tier below.
Merit score would be more important, serving as the primary quality metric and content moderation system. This would work like StackExchange's voting, where users get different ranks based on their cumulative score, and the rank determines what powers they have on the site. Voting itself is one of those powers, so new users wouldn't get to add or subtract right away. Posts/comments would be tiered, so a +33 comment isn't necessarily better than a +30 comment, depending on the algorithm. The Merit scoring controls are automatically hidden until you take some extra steps to unhide them (like click an extra button or change a setting), to make it clear that most users should just give a thumbs up/down. Besides upvote and downvote there is also a "sidevote" which marks the content as off-topic for a selected reason. (downvote means just plain bad, "sidevote" means "it doesn't belong here, but could go somewhere else", removing it from the page but not affecting the user's score) Within any page where a comment is visible, it's position is determined by its Merit Tier first, then it's thumbs-up/thumbs-down count.
By the way replying to a comment would automatically give it an upvote for Merit. Hopefully that would reduce noise and stupid arguments. If you don't think a comment adds anything to the discussion, don't respond. Downvote and move on.
"You must be around to answer questions" absolutely ridiculous. This looks like the amount of shit you would need for a job interview, not posting on a forum.
Reddit mods are power hungry. I have to seriously question the sanity of anyone saying this is ok.
the point of the subreddit is to identify things in your head that you can't remember the name of. it helps people help you if you're around to give more details.
It's not even really an inconvenience. It's a forum for requests, not open discussion. Request threads have always had rules and etiquette. If you went into any pre-Reddit forum and begged, without putting any of your own effort in, they'd just call you a faggot and ban you outright. Anyone who found the answer probably wouldn't tell you, just out of spite.
At least that design is for an image/link post - forcing you to give a text description makes sense. Tip of my tongue seems like it would be exclusively text posts, at which point you have already written everything you need to say in the title and description.
Seems like a "filter" against drive-by spam from forum mods trying to salvage the place from that plague, and going reatrictive to the point of chasing people away.
Specifically, the part about having to be avaliable, "several hours" being too long to reply to comments.
The entire point of this sub is to solicit help in identifying something you can't quite remember exactly. There needs to be a back and forth with OP or that entire concept doesn't work. Without a rule like this you'd end up with a sea of dead posts and people would leave.
Over-reacting. A load of subs have this or 'must flair' or 'must have at least 100+ word description'
It cuts out the low effort, spam and mindless crossposting that won't be engaged with.
This is fine, just inconvienient. It's like a captcha. Annoying but there for a reason.
I disagree, the subreddits with overly elaborate rules still are 90% shitty fucking memes and faggoty nonsense.
Niche game subreddits downvote serious questions and technical support while upvoting LGBT flags and Ukraine rants.
The more mainstream subreddits are even worse, completely unusable unless you intend on posting 'positive' shit about homos.
Bingo, reddit forgot it's own fucking rules.
Doesn't matter if you disagree with the content, if the content matches the subreddit's niche, YOU MUST UPVOTE or at least leave it neutral.
I never agreed with their karma system anyway. Such a setup would always devolve into a popularity contest using the buttons as agree/disagree. If I were making a media platform with reputation and ranking for content filtering, it would have two distinct scoring systems: Reactions vs. Merit
Reactions are basically thumbs up or thumbs down. What YouTube, Facebook, and most other websites have. I'd even mix those faggoty reddit awards in here too. So you can thumbs up, thumbs down, or add a stupid emoji. Thumbs down would hide or downrank the comment on the page. This satisfies the primal need people have to be a peanut gallery and cheer people on, or shout them down. This would be the first and only voting system most people ever see. Content would be ranked by this system only within it's Merit Tier below.
Merit score would be more important, serving as the primary quality metric and content moderation system. This would work like StackExchange's voting, where users get different ranks based on their cumulative score, and the rank determines what powers they have on the site. Voting itself is one of those powers, so new users wouldn't get to add or subtract right away. Posts/comments would be tiered, so a +33 comment isn't necessarily better than a +30 comment, depending on the algorithm. The Merit scoring controls are automatically hidden until you take some extra steps to unhide them (like click an extra button or change a setting), to make it clear that most users should just give a thumbs up/down. Besides upvote and downvote there is also a "sidevote" which marks the content as off-topic for a selected reason. (downvote means just plain bad, "sidevote" means "it doesn't belong here, but could go somewhere else", removing it from the page but not affecting the user's score) Within any page where a comment is visible, it's position is determined by its Merit Tier first, then it's thumbs-up/thumbs-down count.
By the way replying to a comment would automatically give it an upvote for Merit. Hopefully that would reduce noise and stupid arguments. If you don't think a comment adds anything to the discussion, don't respond. Downvote and move on.
Sure, but it isn't in the sidebar...
There's already a bunch of other rules like that, which I did follow. This particular one only comes up after you have posted, which is just... Dumb.
I get the idea of what you are inferring, there, but this is a particularly bollocks "version" of that, tbh...
Easy solution: stop posting on Faggit.
Nah fuck that.
"You must be around to answer questions" absolutely ridiculous. This looks like the amount of shit you would need for a job interview, not posting on a forum.
Reddit mods are power hungry. I have to seriously question the sanity of anyone saying this is ok.
the point of the subreddit is to identify things in your head that you can't remember the name of. it helps people help you if you're around to give more details.
It's not even really an inconvenience. It's a forum for requests, not open discussion. Request threads have always had rules and etiquette. If you went into any pre-Reddit forum and begged, without putting any of your own effort in, they'd just call you a faggot and ban you outright. Anyone who found the answer probably wouldn't tell you, just out of spite.
I had to do the same thing on r/WhatIsThisThing, when I had an account there.
At least that design is for an image/link post - forcing you to give a text description makes sense. Tip of my tongue seems like it would be exclusively text posts, at which point you have already written everything you need to say in the title and description.
Seems like a "filter" against drive-by spam from forum mods trying to salvage the place from that plague, and going reatrictive to the point of chasing people away.
Specifically, the part about having to be avaliable, "several hours" being too long to reply to comments.
The entire point of this sub is to solicit help in identifying something you can't quite remember exactly. There needs to be a back and forth with OP or that entire concept doesn't work. Without a rule like this you'd end up with a sea of dead posts and people would leave.