1 yr. ago • 50%

Should "show scores" default to off?

I saw that setting and switched it off, and now reading through others' and my own comments is like walking on clouds. It's great!

Should this be the default and make everyone's lives here a tiny bit better?

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I don't see how it would be better.

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  I think it adds rather important context and allows you to "read the room" so to speak.
  
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  If you're looking for validation, then probably you want numbers on anyway!
  
  (I leave them on, but don't seek validation. I'm just around to talk and/or fight.)
  
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  Tried mastadon before moving to Lemmy. I ended up leaving mastadon as I didn't find that the voting system allowed me to not only read the individual, but also the mass. Lemmy does this much better.
  
  But I do feel that the lack of karma is nice, no reason to be dragged down by your previous bad decisions, or masses who don't understand your humor.
  
  Oh, and I guess it's nice that one can turn off the votes if they don't like them. It makes for a better experience for a broader set of people. But I feel that turning off the ~~comments~~ votes (derp) by default, or perhaps disabling them entirely, would turn Lemmy into nothing more than a glorified RSS feed - which isn't exactly bad, but not the reason I'm here.
  
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  Yeah, I think I might turn it off as well, it makes things a bit like a shouting match.
  
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I don't see that setting on my end. I don't think I'd want it off, but if having a switch option makes life better for some people I don't see a problem with it

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I have things configured inverse to the way you do; upvotes and downvotes appear as two separate values next to all comments and posts for me.

I prefer this, because it allows me to get a more refined look at my fellow lemmy users palate for content.

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I'd have to say no. That allows for hate speech, harassment, and general trolling to hold equal footing with otherwise civil conversation.

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- Good moderators on your instance should solve that, not just leave it up to the votes.
  
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  You can't always trust that the mods will - or even can - take any action, though. Especially due to the federated nature of things.
  
  For instance, you and I are both commenting from different instances, on a post made on a third instance, by a user from a fourth instance. Who has power over who in this situation? Between you, me, and OP, none of us "belong" to the instance this thread is in. Who are the three of us supposed to be trusting to keep this place clean of that sort of content?
  
  One could argue that that's just the inherent risk you take in using federated platforms, but I don't think that's too widely understood among the user base at large just yet. A simple user-maintained scoring system, even as rudimentary as Lemmy's implementation currently is, does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to filtering the good content from the bad.
  
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It's a number that didn't mean anything.

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  I understand your point of view. It should be exactly as you say, as default not to show and as optional to show them
  
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