Lemmy's design is focused on quality content by ditching the Karma farmers and addicts. No more chasing upvotes—people here actually focus on real value instead of feeding the ego.

EDIT: I know there are upvotes and downvotes, but the problem with Reddit is you can't post in most communities if your karma or reputation is bad. This is a big problem because herd mentality prevails there and if ypu have unpopular opinions you're basically censored.

Lemmy isn't designed to milk ypur dopamine with notifications every 10 upvotes, so you focus more on posting valuable cont instead of farming for approval and upvotes.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Maybe. They might also mean you're an idiot.

Slashdot used to have a multidimensional voting system that would allow you to up or down vote something based on whether it was funny/insightful/correct, etc (can't remember the dimension). I wish we had something like that. Sometimes it would be useful to mark a comment as "funny, but also wrong"

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 10 points 1 day ago

I had a discussion about using the Slashdot style voting rather than the Reddit style.

It not only has the additional tag, it has the max "upvote" display limit of 5, and the display code will expand and promote the best rated comments, while hiding the garbage.

I think comments on most forums would benefit from there being no 'big upvote' number to chase, as well as making the highest rated comments in a thread of say, 200, more obvious.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, it was only up or down, but you could also choose to add a descriptor, funny, insightful, informative, flamebait, troll, and a few others: https://slashdot.org/faq#meta3

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Right, thanks. Still a super useful system, IMO, though I'm sure better versions are possible.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I turn my phone sideways and then my upvote is in a different dimension.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 day ago

Maybe. They might also mean you're an idiot.

If I am wrong sombody will generally probide a rebuttal tho but deff happens