Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It

Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by LinuxBender on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:18AM (#27984834)

As an academic experiment, one could post a message here on HN and on Usenet to see how the interaction plays out on each platform. On Usenet, people can not vote or moderate your message. Messages are only removed from Usenet relays if they violate law for the most part. Anyone can reply if interested in doing so, with any text or content. Has anyone done this experiment recently?

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by denton-scratch on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:10PM (#27987332)

On Usenet, you can moderate your own incoming messages. Assuming you have a suitable newsreader (I know of none that are not suitable for use with killfiles).

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by LinuxBender on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:52PM (#27988013)

Opt-In self moderation is great. You can even do that here on HN with add-ons like uBlock.

From My Filters

  ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(political)
  ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(political)+tr
  ycombinator.com##.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(political)+tr+tr

More examples [0] and there are a few other incantations of this.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781635

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by underseacables on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:30AM (#27992793)

Filters would be fantastic. I would love very much to be able to filter out specific words and phrases from my HN view.

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by LinuxBender on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:42PM (#28002360)

A simpler add-on for words and phrases is FoxReplace. [1]

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/

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