There was a time when messages didn't have scores. ;)
I like the idea of the score modifying placement in the comment tree, but not being visible. I also like the idea of a more expressive score (maybe normalized), I suppose like the emoji systems do, to indicate funny, angry, etc, rather than some silly binary.
It's the first one where average users were affected beyond the blackout, though.
I think this makes the very big assumption that the average user uses third party apps. All of the polls on reddit, that I saw, suggested this is not true. For example. If that's true, then the average Redditor is only being inconvenienced by the blackout and related shenanigans.
Was there a wider poll that showed non-negligible third party usage?
but all the edits made me reconsider
not worry about how many people up/down-ticked our comment.
The first was an afterthought that I wanted to include. The second was because I realized my time trying Voat was close to the hate subs that the majority of the comments here are about. Neither were about up/down, I was just trying to be polite by making the additions clear, since there's no indicator in my UI.
The last one was a lighthearted joke. I thought the last few sentences of it, and the first few, and the middle ones, would make that clear. With an empty /m/funny and /m/jokes, and a /m/memes full of constipation, I'm beginning to suspect my humor may not be well align here.
But, I do think it's silly that given an opinion about my experience, on a question requesting an opinion about that event, results in downvotes. I guess I don't get the point of this place. If we're supposed to ignore karma, and what the larger community thinks of a comment, the score (and authors!) probably shouldn't be placed at such a predominant position with such a large size, indicating importance and worth (I'm on kbin UI).
Well, there's always whitespace!
your ridiculous all or nothing speculation
How is it ridiculous? It's my 2 cent opinion, lightly founded in observation of when this happened several times in the past, with reddit and several other platforms, to a question in a forum about questions, that requires speculation about the future.
There's not a correct or incorrect answer here, just a bunch of idiots guessing. Feel free to influence the future with downvotes though. I'll continue enjoying reading what people have to say.
What if I aim low? Like, "please include the letter c in your next commit"? Will that hit hard enough? Or should I go for a whole word? Come on, I need this!
And, they'll all still be wrong!
I have a few ideas on how to clog my bowels. I really can't wait to contribute!!!
Ok, now let's ask the 99.9% of Redditors that aren't here. You take the left 25,000,000, I'll take the right, meet back in 5. Go!
edit: Oh man, I'm out of breath. We might need help. How about every single lemmy user helps us! That's only about 1,300 people we each have to ask! Well, 1,299 for me. At 4 seconds each, that's should only be about 1.5 hours. See you all soon!
Taking away popular apps to a social network that doesn't have any yet? What? Most users won't see that as a positive.
We would have to see the user stats related to reddit app usage, to talk in an informed way about this, along with the assumption that reddit doesn't improve their app, which will probably be forced onto spez (assuming he isn't kicked out as an atonement/scape goat).
edit: Here's a quick litmus test. How many times have you gone to reddit today?
How so? Nobody could post when the mods disabled the subs.