Voting for forum posts

[throway]

On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 21:40:15 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 21:26:48 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I wonder how difficult it would be to add a voting system for 
>> forum messages. Votes wouldn't be available in the NNTP 
>> interface but would be accessible in the Web interface and 
>> would allow sorting and filtering by votes.
>
> I'm sure this wouldn't be terribly difficult to implement, but 
> I also don't think it is a good idea. Online voting is 
> emotionally toxic and logically fallacious. We're better off 
> without it.

please Vladimir do not! noise is an issue but every great thing 
starts with an unpopular opinion/person. they are already sucking 
each other off in every other forum, taking conformism to new 
levels. what is next, shadowban? oh fuck hackernews. it is like 
mainstream media now. on every thread (technical or not) you see 
*unchallanged*/*out-of-touch* views of some bigot, not 
surprisingly with upvotes to the roof and you can't even see 
those that challange them, either downvoted or shadowbanned.