Well, another point I should mention is I pretty much exclusively browse /all/new so I'm coming at it from the perspective of someone that likes to see all posts regardless of if they're loved or hated. I can see how that might not be the best approach on something like reddit but for low traffic places like poal and voat, it's worked for me.
To that end, I'm not interested in hiding a person's posts from people if they're heavily downvoted or using that information to inform the ranking on the front page. I just like to know what people think of it overall. Are people really neutral about this or that post or would they have downvoted it if not for the pressure not to? As it is, we don't know.
Well, another point I should mention is I pretty much exclusively browse /all/new so I'm coming at it from the perspective of someone that likes to see all posts regardless of if they're loved or hated. I can see how that might not be the best approach on something like reddit but for low traffic places like poal and voat, it's worked for me.
To that end, I'm not interested in hiding a person's posts from people if they're heavily downvoted or using that information to inform the ranking on the front page. I just like to know what people think of it overall. Are people really neutral about this or that post or would they have downvoted it if not for the pressure not to? As it is, we don't know.
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