Used by people when giving the votes I think they mean, not by the sorting logic to view posts and comments. Eg. Agree = upvote, disagree = downvote when in reality, it should be known that upvote = more visibility, downvote = less visibility.
People have their own standards for upvoting and downvoting, but I wouldn’t say it’s trivial. Nearly everyone would intuitively agree “I think more people should see this” is a reason to upvote and vice versa and so act accordingly.
With a controversial default sorting order, you would be incentivised to downvote a popular, quality comment and also downvote unpopular spam to affect visibility appropriately. The difference between high updates and downvotes disappears. The current default sorting order doesn’t incentivise changing your vote based on a comment’s current score to influence its visibility, which is nicer.
Considering upvotes and downvotes are used trivially, it doesn’t really make any difference
That’s completely untrue, it impacts what people see when they load the site.
Used by people when giving the votes I think they mean, not by the sorting logic to view posts and comments. Eg. Agree = upvote, disagree = downvote when in reality, it should be known that upvote = more visibility, downvote = less visibility.
yup, this. It can be “controversial” according to the algo but it’s just a guy being downvoted because they are unpopular, for example
People have their own standards for upvoting and downvoting, but I wouldn’t say it’s trivial. Nearly everyone would intuitively agree “I think more people should see this” is a reason to upvote and vice versa and so act accordingly.
With a controversial default sorting order, you would be incentivised to downvote a popular, quality comment and also downvote unpopular spam to affect visibility appropriately. The difference between high updates and downvotes disappears. The current default sorting order doesn’t incentivise changing your vote based on a comment’s current score to influence its visibility, which is nicer.