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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] artifex@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Why would you downvote something you’re not even interested in without looking at it? You’re not feeding an algorithm here — your downvote doesn’t affect what content you’ll see in the future, it just makes it appear to others that the content had been downvoted.

Upvote content you like. Downvote content you actively don’t like.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

Some people have wild personal psychologies.

All I really do is post owl stuff, and I'll pick up a stray downvote here or there by accident I'm assuming. But I had one user downvoting near every post I made. No biggie to me, just a curiosity really. I wasn't sure why they wouldn't just block me or the community if they didn't like the content, but whatever. This went on for a couple months.

One day they left a comment finally and it was a positive one. I replied essentially "thanks, but I thought you hated my content or me myself." Their reply was "nah, I love all your posts, I just downvote everything from .world to lower them in the sort." My guy, it's one vote. The whole thing was funny, especially since learning they were actually a fan, but so confusing to attempt to penalize someone for such a random reason, especially someone you seemingly enjoy.

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