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How does PieFed improve voting compared to Reddit/Lemmy? (piefed.zip)

submitted 15 hours ago by MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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I’m trying to understand how PieFed’s voting culture is different. I’ll admit, I usually upvote things I like and downvote the rest. Sometimes, if a post has a low score, I don't even read the title, I just downvote and move on. I suspect I’m not the only one who does this.

I know PieFed shows "Attitude" (the percentage of positive vs. negative votes you cast) on profiles, which is a nice touch. But aside from that metric, it doesn't seem to physically limit the act of downvoting.

Are there plans to make voting more meaningful? For instance, I've seen suggestions in the community about restricting votes to subscribers to prevent "drive-by" downvotes from people who aren't part of the community. How does PieFed plan to handle the issue of users reflexively downvoting without engaging with the content?

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

To stop seeing the content with that setting. it’s faster than opening the post.

Downvoting won't achieve that. Just block the community its from if it is consistently a source of posts you're not interested in.

[–] MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Every post I vote stops showing when I reload the page.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

To warn you, downvoting is public on the forumverse, so if you are perceived as reflexively downvoting at scale in a community- you risk getting community banned.