its just a casual suggestion, i am more curious about what it would look like- what it would do to promote a different behavior… while the stuff about being singled out and targeted is something i’ve experienced- if i were truly thrown off by that tactic, i’d leave, but i don’t see why this conversation must be about that and not the suggestion itself- do you think a system like that would work in the way i picture it? can you see any reason it would not work in a small testable environment? not looking for counseling, not trying to change the world to my preference, not on a crusade to punish people-- but it seems i’m easily caricatured as ‘caring too much’ or being ‘weak/soft’ in so many words.

that is sort of what my notion amounts to- it creates weighting-- doesn’t prevent people from upvoting, but prevents them from obviously malicious downvote sprees. when you see someone with a lot of downvotes, it would mean something more.

so if i were to post something in ‘world news’ but there is a very clear and decisive groupthink that doesn’t allow different positions air to breathe, what then? again, that’s ‘WORLD’ news

oh i do… when anyone is allowed to target someone with a hundred downvotes, literally clicking through their post history to do so, just dilutes and damages the data / meaningfulness of those actions. believe that each instance has an interest in that data, whether you do or don’t.

it would be an interesting environment to experience… i’d be curious to see where people put their rarefied downvotes-- how they adjust their button pressing economy :P

except that it affects sorting and thus visibility-- it does matter, after all. it doesn’t even have to be 2:1 you could go 1:1 and see folks who do nothing but downvote suddenly have to engage and support growth

write it down and read it the next day- usually works for me, hope this helps!

i don’t think he’s much much much much worse, that’s too many muchs- maaaybe much much worse- and that’s neither here or there… genocide IS a reasonable red line and you can’t gaslight me off my solid footing in that regard.

axis of evil and has been. you vote democrat, you vote republican, you vote for genocide. simple as.

musk is a piece of shit but why is this investigation in USAID’s purview?

wrong thread/

this of course after using ai to ban 2.3 million ‘security threat’ aps.

tulsi is a flawed human being, we all are- but she is not a double agent for russia. there, i said it, downvotes please.

doesn’t that make their releasing it as open-source even more of a gift? :P

we do hear about ‘industry plants’, however…

higher among children in households earning less than 100k and among children of “parents with an education level of an associate’s degree or less.”

the first cohort broadly implies the second so its inclusion seems unnecessary/redundant

big tech?

the consolidation of platforms has been happening through both democratic and republican administrations. be honest.

stocks are a confidence game. china showed you can do a lot more with less and i think there was a pretty widely acknowledged awareness that there was already a bubble… now i’m not a fancy economist but this is what i’ve gathered

but isn’t their strategy literally how they have 90 percent of the wealth? seems a crushingly effective strategy. what do you suppose their downfall looks like? does it happen before or after ours?