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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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[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

  • Emoji reactions are a big one - rather than voting you can apply an emoji, which is a much richer expression.

  • Every community can have different settings for who can downvote. Here are the options:

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  • If you downvote more than you upvote, pretty soon you can't downvote anymore.
[–] julian@activitypub.space 1 points 5 hours ago

Ah true! NodeBB doesn't support emoji reactions yet.

Thanks for reminding me of yet another way we're behind Piefed :muscle:

[–] MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If you downvote more than you upvote, pretty soon you can’t downvote anymore.

Oh, I guess I’ll start using only upvotes to mark posts as read.

Do you have any ideas for improving discovery of niche topics? What about that suggestion about limiting downvotes to subscribers to prevent drive-by downvotes?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

The Explore menu is PieFed's attempt to improve discoverability. https://piefed.zip/explore is pretty light on the topics and feeds but if you look at https://piefed.social/explore you'll see what it could be.

Limiting downvotes to subscribers is in the screenshot I shared earlier, as "community members".