Should admins have the ability to discard votes, and if so, which admins? Should community mods have that ability? Can you think of any ways that tools like this could be abused?

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 39 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I think votes should honestly be a bit more like old school SlashDot voting, where you had several different types of votes you could leave on a comment like Insightful, Funny, Helpful, etc. Have a few negative ones like Bad Faith Argument, Spam, Advertisement, etc. And also like old school /., you'd have a limited amount of votes you can give. Make them replenish once per day, or have users earn additional votes for receiving positive votes on their comments, or something along those lines.

That would prevent bombing an entire comment thread with downvotes, and provides much-needed context for any given comment's score.

[–] lath@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Piefed has some comment emojis available. Not sure how they show up on other instances.

I used a "no smoking' one on your comment. But did i use it properly or just to screw around?

[–] 47batic@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

it worked. i also added a no smoking emoji to this comment.

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