I don’t see why the site’s content would drift if you simply ignore posts. People would eventually stop posting on their own. So I don’t think that justifies being unkind or driving people right away.
In the end, I don’t think it matters much whether a post has +500, 0, or −500. The score doesn’t seem to be an accurate reflection of quality or of what readers actually want. To be honest, it feels more like it fosters some sort of “smart” bias and tribalism. Probably a range −10/10 is more than enough.
If you feel strongly, positively or negatively, about a post, you should be able to take a moment to express that in a few words.
The only downside I can imagine is that it would take up more disk space since there would be more posts (if I understand the algorithm correctly). But that’s a trivial amount of space.
On the otherside, you get the benefits of boosting the amount comments and normalising the votes. It seems there are always much more votes than comments, possibly creating an echo chamber.
I don’t see why the site’s content would drift if you simply ignore posts. People would eventually stop posting on their own. So I don’t think that justifies being unkind or driving people right away.
In the end, I don’t think it matters much whether a post has +500, 0, or −500. The score doesn’t seem to be an accurate reflection of quality or of what readers actually want. To be honest, it feels more like it fosters some sort of “smart” bias and tribalism. Probably a range −10/10 is more than enough.
If you feel strongly, positively or negatively, about a post, you should be able to take a moment to express that in a few words.
The only downside I can imagine is that it would take up more disk space since there would be more posts (if I understand the algorithm correctly). But that’s a trivial amount of space.
On the otherside, you get the benefits of boosting the amount comments and normalising the votes. It seems there are always much more votes than comments, possibly creating an echo chamber.