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.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 34 points 15 hours 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 8 points 13 hours 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 4 points 14 hours 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 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] errer@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 13 hours ago

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

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