I’ve always been a little skeptical of the up/downvote mechanism on any social media platform. It makes it so easy to weaponize the human bias towards group conformity, by doing exactly what you described.
I won’t try to argue the voting has no benefits. It can be helpful to reduce the reach of truly bad faith posts for example, and everyone loves the little dopamine hit of seeing one’s own posts upvoted - me included. Just that it also has real drawbacks, and I’m not sure whether the good outweighs the bad.
I’ve always been a little skeptical of the up/downvote mechanism on any social media platform. It makes it so easy to weaponize the human bias towards group conformity, by doing exactly what you described.
I won’t try to argue the voting has no benefits. It can be helpful to reduce the reach of truly bad faith posts for example, and everyone loves the little dopamine hit of seeing one’s own posts upvoted - me included. Just that it also has real drawbacks, and I’m not sure whether the good outweighs the bad.