Ability to have favourite users. Ability to give their posts and threads “personal karma”. Similarly ability to killfile individuals, like you could in the old newsgroup days. (Or use “personal negative Karma”).
A kind of “favourite users” already exists, under the guise of “friends”. (Click on PREFERENCES, then click FRIENDS on the re-rendered navigation bar.)
But it sounds like what you’re suggesting is a more fine-grained personal ranking of posters. This could be useful, and it could be dangerous. It sounds like it could reinforce confirmation bias, for one.
Ability to have favourite users. Ability to give their posts and threads “personal karma”. Similarly ability to killfile individuals, like you could in the old newsgroup days. (Or use “personal negative Karma”).
A kind of “favourite users” already exists, under the guise of “friends”. (Click on PREFERENCES, then click FRIENDS on the re-rendered navigation bar.)
But it sounds like what you’re suggesting is a more fine-grained personal ranking of posters. This could be useful, and it could be dangerous. It sounds like it could reinforce confirmation bias, for one.