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how do people from Reddit feel about how comments are chronologically listed instead of ranked by voting? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The dopamine kick from getting updoots is real, I'd spend way too much time just trying to figure out what gets upvoted to game it. I speed ran an account to 125k in a few months. It's compulsive and addicting.

A week on here and I'm enjoying the learning experience, conversations with a broader range of opinions, less hive mind, and not checking my karma constantly, and as a result it feels better.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not from reddit but I have thoughts nonetheless.

if you get attention to your thread via some ”easy” method like having the most recent reply, this attracts stealth abuse. troublemakers can try to use plausible replies to push up what they want to fill the top, and push down everything else. i want to emphasize that you cannot really notice or be sure when this goes on.

therefore, it's important that popular clients don't make anything like that the default. upvotes is much harder to game. recent post (but not replies) is okay because people making too many dumb posts is obvious and they can be blocked (etc.). most replies is fine since it takes lots of different people. even some combination (weighted upvotes, weighted downvotes, weighted total replies) could be nice.

instances could take how their ”front page” / default sort works very seriously because it ends up shaping what users see and interact with the most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are several other options for sorting comments, you don't have to keep it chronological...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

how do people from Reddit feel about how comments are chronologically listed instead of ranked by voting?

I want to be able to choose the default for my profile. Generally, I like the filter options here more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I always sorted by new on my favorites. Waiting for a sort by new for comments here soon hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your case almost reads like satire. So extreme. Another reason to not miss reddit and its excessive gamification among with other terrible features. You make redditors look like zombies. No offense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

None taken, I didn't start out that way on there, and at the time I didn't have the self awareness as to how compulsive it was.

I used to laugh at others when they moaned about their fake internet points, the irony!