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alpha0  ·  4901 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Rocking the UI boat.
What does a down vote mean? It is such a passive aggressive little device. What does it lead to? Throttling reads? That's borderline censorship. Graying to oblivion? Same. Seems to lead to echo chambers. (cf hn though thankfully you are not building a cult of personality here ;)

If you disagree with me, discuss it with me. If you don't care for it, move along. If I offend, point it out (see above) and perhaps enter into the reply form via a flagging mechanism to make sure "we" can provide oversight. Transparency.

Then ..

Contrary to some considerations, humans remain fond of social structure. Hubski will not be different than everything that has gone before it. Perhaps you are shooting for an emergent phenomena -- would be interesting -- but very likely "we" will have "our" hands on the console? :)

All that said, quite alternatively, I would think downvotes and all the exclusion filters that get applied may be actually OK but only served to the downvoter e.g. my view of hubski is not altered because some influential heavies have downvoted someone to the floor. They can have their filtered hubski and please let me make my own reading and social decisions.