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.
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.