So if we can’t downvote into oblivion, how do we get rid of shitposting in this place?
What is the algorithm that currently determines the placement of discussion articles? Oh it defaults to “new”. Hmm. ok.
Then when you click “Top Scoring”, it defaults to “All time”.
When you manually select something more sensible like this week or this month you can’t see this post, and you see some interesting articles.
Maybe the problem is not that this post hasn’t been downvoted enough, but that we are not setting sensible defaults? Maybe we need to make the default some kind of semi-random selection which trades off quality against newness?
What is the algorithm that currently determines the placement of discussion articles? Oh it defaults to “new”. Hmm. ok.
Then when you click “Top Scoring”, it defaults to “All time”.
When you manually select something more sensible like this week or this month you can’t see this post, and you see some interesting articles.
Maybe the problem is not that this post hasn’t been downvoted enough, but that we are not setting sensible defaults? Maybe we need to make the default some kind of semi-random selection which trades off quality against newness?