Public fora without some ranking system are useless. Fortunately, we mostly have the choice of WHICH ones to read/participate in, so if you don’t like voting, you can start your own pretty easily. You’ll still have the less-visible voting of what people choose to actually do.
Censorship requires a third party. If one releases content on a forum and a viewer going through the most recent posts decides to not read it is no censorship.
Censorship requires a third party between creator and reader that prevents distribution and access to the creation.
And your argument goes into argumentum ad populum. Just because most people prefer forums with voting systems does not mean that they are better.
It is obvious why every forum and social media site has voting. It is about the psychology of humans. Gratification and recognition are great.
Voting can serve as a tool to sort correct content from wrong one but as any voting is implemented currently they do not achieve this.
Public fora without some ranking system are useless. Fortunately, we mostly have the choice of WHICH ones to read/participate in, so if you don’t like voting, you can start your own pretty easily. You’ll still have the less-visible voting of what people choose to actually do.
Censorship requires a third party. If one releases content on a forum and a viewer going through the most recent posts decides to not read it is no censorship.
Censorship requires a third party between creator and reader that prevents distribution and access to the creation.
And your argument goes into argumentum ad populum. Just because most people prefer forums with voting systems does not mean that they are better.
It is obvious why every forum and social media site has voting. It is about the psychology of humans. Gratification and recognition are great.
Voting can serve as a tool to sort correct content from wrong one but as any voting is implemented currently they do not achieve this.