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Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth (www.ft.com)
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Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth::Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

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[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Up- and Downvotes should be removed entirely.

[–] r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have mixed feelings about this. Self moderation is better then needing to get mods involved with everything. Lemmy does it pretty well where voting only impacts each post and there's no total karma count.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'd like the system if it at all resulted in self-moderation. but it really doesn't

[–] Aolley@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I disagree in the sense that I think voting is useful but just up/down is not. A consensus engine that can judge each aspect of a statement alone and in a group can be used to find what is misleading, dishonest, and the like as well as what is simply untrue or lies.