Callum_Taleworlds said:
Why are people so against a like button? Twitter, facebook, reddit, youtube, or pretty much every single modern social media added them in. Glad to see Taleworlds wants to modernize from this decade old layout. Gets hard to type and browse on my phone.
Big social media giants have no direct moderation and use upvotes to try and curate media on an enormous scale. Post reacts control the way people see information by exploiting our herd mentality. Which of the following posts makes you more likely to want to support it?
They are also cesspools. The top comments on YouTube videos for example are usually complete trash. At best they are tired unfunny memes, at worse they are reprehensible. On Facebook, people who can't defend their opinions in text (neo-nazis, rape apologists, pedophiles etc) will resort to upvoting a comment instead. I've seen hundreds of comments which overtly condone genocide which have hundreds of upvotes but few replies. Even if you just have positive upvotes you give extra power to people who don't bother posting because they can't argue their position, and give them the same amount of "visibility" as someone who can.
I don't know why you would use any of these websites as positive examples of online communities when they are essentially digital totalitarian dictatorships.
Dragon239 said:
Reactions are fine.
+1 reply-posts are unnecessary clutter in comparison to a like button.
People already get warned for spamming +1.
Dragon239 said:
Plenty of people are lurkers for whatever reason, and an anonymous reaction lets them join in on a conversation, however slim it is.
Why do people who don't post need to be allowed to contribute to a conversation?