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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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[–] julian@activitypub.space 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

> @hubertmanne@piefed.social said: > > I upvote everything now but that is because of a quirk with a setting where I tell it not to show me things I have viewed or interacted with so upvoting removes stuff im not interested in.

Okay, I get the rationale behind it, but it seems like an improper extension of the voting mechanism, doesn't it?

(Not specifically singling you out, I'm just speaking broadly.)

One of those side effects that doesn't just affect you. Makes me wonder if this was added because it increases engagement metrics.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Thats what I kind of mean. some folks vote on everything. some don't vote on anything. some are very specific and thoughtful in their voting and some have default voting things. I have been both. I don't view voting information as at all useful in a community type of way. Now make it scarce and maybe. Like every day your get one up or down vote that will expire in a week or something. Thing about that kind of thing though is it encourages folks who like to manipulate to make a bunch of accounts. I could totally see cm0002 going through all his accounts to downvote things on lemmy.ml. I just don't think its very useful unless as a feature for accounts locally.