Suppose I began posting porn, or furry art, or other stuff that the natives considered "degenerate". The downvotes will flow. Poal at least doesn't stop your posting and upvoting ability for it, but still. respond to you also
Yeah, but my question is who cares about downvotes when they have little to no consequences?
I mean, fuck it. There are some cool people here but I generally don't fucking care what strangers on the internet think of me. If I post something on poal that people find genuinely objectionable and I get a metric fuckton of downvotes, that's rough. But no one would stop me, assuming it's not CP or the like.
See my convo with PMYB2 in this thread for my explanation on why I think votes matter
It doesn't really address my point though. This all works under the assumption that you are concerned about your internet cred.
Culturally speaking, poal actively discourages downvoting unpopular opinions.
Personally, I can't think of the last time I checked someone's internet score before deciding whether their opinion is worth a shit.
Downvotes are for what people consider spam. I intentionally decided I did not want a system where something got hidden based on votes or restricted based on votes. Sorted okay. So I'm not sure that qualifies as censorship. Just my 2 cents
As I said, Poal doesn't censor your ability to say what you want. But logicstically speaking, downvotes hurt, hurt lack of a better term, the credibility of the poster regardless of ramifications. Two posters with similar arguements about an unpopular topic, like let's say Orange Man Bad, the one with more votes might be given a pass by the angry masses, while the other will be considered a shill or SBBH minion or something equally demeaning. Budda is a very very good example of this. He holds fairly liberal views and has made posts historically on Voat calling out Trump and Q tards. But let's pretend it was Gabara, or Sanegoat. Would they be given the same respect and pass on their views?
Don't misunderstand and think I am knocking Poal as a platform. All I am saying is that if you don't self censor yourself on these platforms to exclude material that isn't what the masses think, you risk becoming a paraiah
You make a valid point, this is something I’ve thought about before and probably will until I figure out a solution if there even is one. I’d like to encourage people to bring ideas out into the open, but bad ideas are bad example being sticking a fork in a light socket it’s a bad idea objectively yet some people will still bring up ideas like this, I already strong encourage people here to argue rather than downvote.
I don’t think anyone here give two shits about the voat system I don’t read or comment on any gabara post or his many alts because he’s an asshole but I read most things by small pond even though I disagree with everything he says because he brings a different perspective than I have and can argue his point intelligently . My point is there is no censorship here and you can present your side of the story or argument whatever that may be Just don’t expect anybody to read it if you’re an asshole
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