The problem isn’t low quality content, that gets filtered out mostly before it reaches the front page. The problem are people who downvote based on emotional trigger, not argument. And people ganging up. Never had a case where suddenly within a minute you get 4, 5 downvotes? Seems like an organised group.
reply> Never had a case where suddenly within a minute you get 4, 5 downvotes?
replyWell, no, I never have, but if I did, my first reaction would be to think I struck a nerve and had a bunch of people react, not that there was a conspiracy.
You’d think so if that was like a continuous process. You wouldn’t if you get a couple of upvotes during the day, then 5 downvotes during 1 minute, and nothing more for hours. What really pisses me off on this site is that continuing arguments (as in a discussion based on arguments, not being argumentative) often leads to people downvoting to kill the convo. So many unproductive discussions here where you know your arguments are fine but people just downvote because they can. Not surprised soma y people are like ”fuck it, throw away account it is”.
replyThat seems more like a conspiracy theory. I think the group of people who 1) view this website and 2) click on a thread about certain topics are a heavily conditioned (and therefore more homogenized) group; if you say something that is controversial/low quality, it is likely going to get downvoted by multiple people in that group.
replyControversial/low quality are both subjective and i am not a fan of putting controversial next to low quality.
replyI do agree I dont think there is any larger bias other than a homogeneous group but it does question if such a group will up/down vote similar homogeneous content producing overall lower quality discussion and content.