yeah, there’s all sorts of interesting ways to take it- i’m sure they each have their own merits and pitfalls… i once dreamed of a social media site where you could only POST one thing per day :P what that would do to the quality and length and decisions related to topic… but that would promote more botting

that is sort of what my notion amounts to- it creates weighting-- doesn’t prevent people from upvoting, but prevents them from obviously malicious downvote sprees. when you see someone with a lot of downvotes, it would mean something more.

twitter has something like this that hides you away until you’re ‘established’ by reposting and following x users… ostensibly to curb botting-- it feels shitty though and could drive a lot of users away.

well there’s the implementation angle-- i would think one is a lot more complicated to put together than another- naturally i prefer my idea and you prefer yours, but there is elegance in simplicity and it could be a place to start- no reason both ideas can’t be explored.

its not a huge issue, but its not a non-issue… you don’t have to be so black and white with your dismissives.

it would be an interesting environment to experience… i’d be curious to see where people put their rarefied downvotes-- how they adjust their button pressing economy :P

except that it affects sorting and thus visibility-- it does matter, after all. it doesn’t even have to be 2:1 you could go 1:1 and see folks who do nothing but downvote suddenly have to engage and support growth

yep, takes all kinds.

he’ll change his mind if a girl he likes tells him he stinks… is it the ‘because’ he offers that upsets you or the smell he gives off?

i concede a point to you but i guess i’m just moving goalposts.

yes russia broke international law, but everyone and their mother knew about putin’s position and pressed it until it was determined from russian perspective that there was no alternative. by the way, international law-- why is it that the USA/israel can ignore it with impunity?

isn’t it possible russia has just cause to fear nato build-up on their borders?

well i hope for his sake he’s a bot.

well it happened two times because every post for the last 12 hrs or so that had 0 downvotes suddenly had 2 and it happened because i have a less than popular understanding of the situation in ukraine… happened a day or two back as well, but again its not of great concern where my up and downvotes rest, just good to know it can be confirmed one way or another.

i can survive the downvotes, it gives me enough peace to know its visible behavior… how embarrassing for them

appreciate it.

you may notice the “quotation marks” and the attribution. ‘revolution of dignity’ lol

another thing you can be confidently incorrect about.

"In 2014, after a well-prepared[3] US-sponsored anti-Russian coup in Kyiv, Ukrainian ultranationalists banned the official use of Russian and other minority languages in their country and, at the same time, affirmed Ukraine’s intention to become part of NATO. Among other consequences, Ukrainian membership in NATO would place Russia’s 250-year-old naval base in the Crimean city of Sebastopol under NATO and hence U.S. control. Crimea was Russian-speaking and had several times voted not to be part of Ukraine. So, citing the precedent of NATO’S violent intervention to separate Kosovo from Serbia, Russia organized a referendum in Crimea that endorsed its reincorporation in the Russian Federation. The results were consistent with previous votes on the issue.

Meanwhile, in response to Ukraine’s banning of the use of Russian in government offices and education, predominantly Russian-speaking areas in the country’s Donbas region attempted to secede. Kyiv sent forces to suppress the rebellion. Moscow responded by backing Ukrainian Russian speakers’ demands for the minority rights guaranteed to them by both the pre-coup Ukrainian constitution and the principles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). NATO backed Kyiv against Moscow. An escalating civil war among Ukrainians ensued. This soon evolved into an intensifying proxy war in Ukraine between the United States, NATO, and Russia."

from former ambassador chas freeman. you know what came after this ? a brokered peace agreement by osce france and germany in which various terms were settled which neither france, nor germany, nor ukraine were intending to uphold. this is the minsk agreement.

there’s a lot you like to leave out, and i’m sure you’ll deign to forget this history, too.

edit: to the one user who upvoted me: i see you, bless your heart and open mind- more than makes up for the dozens upon dozens of salty idealogues

i was hauling 20 percent of china’s tea in my car when you stole it.