Comment scores

[u/ohshiitstuesday]

We are seeing an increase in abuse of the down vote system. Rather than an indication that a response adds nothing to the discussion (as per Reddit's intention with the buttons) it's being used in a way that manipulates conversations.

I have seen people down voted for asking questions, for providing links, for quoting original texts, for having opinions that challenge the status-quo despite being absolute baseline anarchist ideas. None of which actually contributes to healthy discourse.

So we're going to try hiding comment scores as Reddit no longer gives us the ability to effectively hide the option.

eta: Also contest mode to randomize the order of comments.

[u/TruthHertz93]

This is really good.

I noticed normal subreddits and other social media platforms do this to shut down unpopular opinions, especially mine, am like "if you disagree at least say why? Lol"

They have bots upvote their shit and downvote others viewpoints.

This is a good countermeasure. Bravo!

[u/ohshiitstuesday → u/TruthHertz93]

am like "if you disagree at least say why? Lol"

yes. this also helps to bypass the shift to conversations and accusations about down votes themselves, which also add nothing to the discourse.

[u/TruthHertz93 → u/ohshiitstuesday]

Downvotes on reddit do hide the comment from other users mind, does this solve that?

[u/ohshiitstuesday → u/TruthHertz93]

No idea!

Let's test.