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Zkuq on 17 August 2024
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Bandorr said:

Here's a question how about.. a setting?
All - It's normal. All votes remain.
Good - Only positive votes. Everything else gets zero'd out to neutral. No comments get hidden no matter how negative.
NONE - All votes are neutraled out. No comments get hidden no matter how negative.

How votes are sorted etc wouldn't be changed. And you could still upvote/downvote you just wouldn't see the votes.

Well, I personally go through the downvoted stuff anyway, because most of that stuff is usually fairly reasonable. I even click the 'hidden' posts. Hence a setting wouldn't really change anything, and it's not about my perception anyway, it's about how the community works with the system in general.

spurgeonryan said:

Who cares about votes? It's not affecting the site. Nobody is going, oh God, there are votes and it is not how I like it, I am leaving.
As for Liking a post or subscribing to a thread. Again, nobody really cares, all of this is just extra stuff to make the site a site. Functionality.
And I do not mean to say, if you care about votes that your opinion does not matter, just saying this thread is about the state of the forums.

Does the votes and the like really affect much?

To be clear, I don't really care at all about upvoting in the forums. I click the so-called 'Agree' button whenever I feel like doing so, and sometimes it's fun to see how many other people agree, but aside from maybe skipping the occasional 'Yeah, I think so too.' post, it's not really affecting me in any way. It's the news comment section that's... not nice. That's also why it's not a huge thing in a grand scheme of things (the forums are the main thing anyway), but news comment aren't exactly a joy. Not that they're great for proper discussion anyway though, because news tend to get lost once more news come in, and the nesting layout doesn't really lend itself well to lengthy discussion anyway. But it'd be nice if reasonable comments didn't get treated poorly just because they're not popular opinions.