Feature Suggestion: Downvote
105 sats \ 3 comments \ @moon 13 Jul 2022 bitcoin
What SN thinks of the possibility of implementing downvote?
I was thiking it could have a cost higher than upvotes, maybe 10 sats per upvote sat. Since the user can lose sats in their post, the sats gained by a post would have to be locked for some time -- until a point where it's not possible to downvote it anymore. The 10 sats paid plus the 1 sat lost could go to SN's funds.
The reason is to filter out spams, scams, and topics that are completely off or inapropriate. As the site grows, this will inevitably appear more and more.
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @kilianbuhn 13 Jul 2022
I think downvotes introduce so much negativity.
Could be a disaster for the culture here. Especially with so many edgy opinions and hottakes.
I'd rather see them disappear into irrelevance when nobody upvotes.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @moon OP 13 Jul 2022
yes I agree, my hope is that by having a higher cost it would really be used only when things are really just spam/scams
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 13 Jul 2022
One thing I was wondering is if there's a way to reward people for "marking" clearly low-quality content.
Like if high trust user marks spam as spam and it is indeed a spam, then the user would ideally get rewarded sats for this value added.
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