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Things change, though. Upvote/downvote was one of the many things Reddit and other places trialed over the years, and based on the success, stuck with it. Me, I barely spent any time on Usenet, but it occurs to me that the userbase was probably smaller. A much, much larger userbase probably fits better with upvote/downvote, so the comparison there is likely skewed, methinks.
'Dopamine rush' is exactly right, and I think it's useful and informational, similar to the way that people react to your statements and ideas in real life. I do think they can have an 'echo chamber' effect and help promote the problem that a popular thing or opinion can be completely wrong, but to me that just means that upvotes/downvotes aren't perfect, not that they should be completely discarded.
Not sure what you want me to do with a link to a book, but I don't even agree with the premise of the title sentence. Reddit is still very useful to me, and I know of no other place that replicates the variety of content, there.
I feel like they're distinctly separate things, and I thought I'd communicated as much. Oh, well.
That seems like... a little much. I do agree that upvotes/downvotes indeed gamify the system, but on the whole would say that the end-effect on Reddit results in a big bunch of hoomons acting in typical hoomon ways, which is with deep undercurrents of fickle, ignorant, selfish, feel-good behavior.
Yeah, I get that, but I do observe that there are advantages to upvote/downvote that indeed work better on a larger scale. I'm not sure they're really needed on a smaller scale.
I'd say I agree with most of the things you wrote, but remain unconvinced that upvote/downvote is so absolutely toxic as to merit tossing. And of course, I don't think it's going to happen, anyway.
Aggregate behaviour amongst naked apes? Yeah, I would tend to agree. Now what?
We're doing a great job of that ourselves, so mission accomplished?
I've been on Reddit for 10yrs, and the Fediverse for the past 2.5yrs, and don't see that changing anytime soon. I'm also skeptical as to the FV ever matching Reddit in terms of variety and bulk of content. The situation just is what it is.