Lemmy's design is focused on quality content by ditching the Karma farmers and addicts. No more chasing upvotes—people here actually focus on real value instead of feeding the ego.

EDIT: I know there are upvotes and downvotes, but the problem with Reddit is you can't post in most communities if your karma or reputation is bad. This is a big problem because herd mentality prevails there and if ypu have unpopular opinions you're basically censored.

Lemmy isn't designed to milk ypur dopamine with notifications every 10 upvotes, so you focus more on posting valuable cont instead of farming for approval and upvotes.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 99 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Visible post and comment scores are still going to produce some of this behavior. You may not have a total karma but people will still get dopamine from seeing their posts getting upvotes and be reinforced in doing the same again. So the same mechanisms of social pressure and uniformisation are at play. The worst being when people delete their minority opinion comments because of the downvote pressure.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Meh, I'll leave down voted posts. It's the mods around here who don't seem to want to leave them up.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You can turn vote counts off if you want to.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 38 points 18 hours ago

Yeah but I won't because I like dopamine.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Down votes mean I am reaching the correct audience for that specific content

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 38 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Maybe. They might also mean you're an idiot.

Slashdot used to have a multidimensional voting system that would allow you to up or down vote something based on whether it was funny/insightful/correct, etc (can't remember the dimension). I wish we had something like that. Sometimes it would be useful to mark a comment as "funny, but also wrong"

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 9 points 18 hours ago

I had a discussion about using the Slashdot style voting rather than the Reddit style.

It not only has the additional tag, it has the max "upvote" display limit of 5, and the display code will expand and promote the best rated comments, while hiding the garbage.

I think comments on most forums would benefit from there being no 'big upvote' number to chase, as well as making the highest rated comments in a thread of say, 200, more obvious.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

No, it was only up or down, but you could also choose to add a descriptor, funny, insightful, informative, flamebait, troll, and a few others: https://slashdot.org/faq#meta3

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Right, thanks. Still a super useful system, IMO, though I'm sure better versions are possible.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I turn my phone sideways and then my upvote is in a different dimension.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 18 hours ago

Maybe. They might also mean you're an idiot.

If I am wrong sombody will generally probide a rebuttal tho but deff happens

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Genuinely curious, does that mean that, for you, getting downvoted gives you dopamine/a sense of accomplishment?

Your above comment is in the negative when I'm making this comment. Does that feel good? Again, genuinely curious, hard to put a non-judgemental tone in writing.

I can't relate to that feeling, upvotes and downvotes to me show how much a community agrees or disagrees with what I've said. Either what I said isn't right for the community I posted it in or maybe just a generally unpopular opinion if I'm getting downvotes. Might make me reflect but usually no big deal, I'm mostly here for the discussions, memes and current events. Outside of trolling I don't really see how getting downvoted might be seen as a good thing by a poster.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

If people down vote but are unable to provide a coherent rebuttal, that means that they are rage down voting.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 4 points 13 hours ago

Not necessarily, I usually downvote comments where there are enough rebuttal replies but I still disagree heavily with what's being said. I am able to provide the Nth coherent rebuttal but I'm just either lazy or I don't want to contribute to the spam.

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 6 points 17 hours ago

I guess getting people to rage can feel validating, knowing that I've made someone rage quit a game feels satisfying for sure.

I don't personally feel that way about sites like Lemmy/Reddit/Social-media in general where things are more discussion and social-interaction based though. I guess for my kind of discourse goals, if I've made someone angry rather than laugh or understand my perspective, I've done a bad job.