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Why vote on posts? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by Lengsel to c/[email protected]

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What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I'm not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?

I never vote up or down on here in the same manner that I never click Like on any social media sites either, I don't see what the intent behind it is.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We'll have to wait and see. The recent userspike rom servers that have no captcha/email requirement is certainly suspicious. But thats an external issue, not a problem with the idea of the vote system itself. Hopefully one that's solvable if it ever turns out to be an issue.

[–] sinnerdotbin 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Having a feature to view votes/sort from your local, a sort of "what is active outside your local by your local", might be one way to mitigate it somewhat. Though most instances probably aren't active enough to have wide overlap in user interest outside of the local.

Ultimately all vote based platforms that have no identity verification are open to abuse (and email is hardly a verification when you can create as many as you want). But works well enough for now.