ShadowRunner

It’s also important to note that individual users can block an entire instance as well.

Just click on the name of the instance in parentheses next to the title of a thread and then click the Block button there.

Hi, ernest!

If this is a known issue that you intend to address, and it’s just a matter of priorities, then I’m happy.

Everyone appreciates all the work you’ve been doing, and I hope you’re getting help to ease your burdens.

Your expectation of what upvoting and downvoting represents does not match up with the most intuitive psychological interpretations are - and therefore, it is unrealistic.

However, I will also state that while the problem you perceive is more relevant for comments, having up/downvotes represent Like/Dislike is more appropriate at the Thread/Post level - as the idea for a subreddit is that content users like should be promoted and content they don’t want to see should be demoted.

That makes it even more difficult because now you want the arrows to mean different things depending on the area they are used.

You will never break the link between voting and Like/Dislike. However, what you can do is have a separate control to indicate whether a comment is appropriate or not.

If you want forum specific content that is generally considered spicy, go to that forum directly rather than complain that every other forum not handle your need for spicy content in an effective way for all parties.

This has nothing to do with complaining about how other forums handle this.

This is about how kbin handles it, and kbin is designed to incorporate multiple forums from multiple instances. In other words, we’re talking about how kbin should be able to do what it’s designed to do even better.

I understand what you’re saying. However, echo chambers aside, I found reddit very useful for political discourse. Even for subjects that had a hive mind response, there were often a few comments that presented the other side in a very well thought out way, with details and citations which would give some folks a reason to rethink their knee-jerk response.

In addition, one of the biggest problems in the US is that lack of political engagement by younger folks. So having those news articles and discussions on a popular forum gives them that visibility into the world of governance and allows them to both develop a desire to vote for change as well as having better knowledge of the issues and how different political figures have acted and what they really stand for.

So I welcome that discourse and having political subs.

It’d be awesome to be a classier/more serious version of Reddit.

Those things are not mutually exclusive. You can have higher standards for the serious subs we host as well as having porn related subs as well.

Just subscribe to the ones you want and ignore the others.

There is no reason why blurred thumbnails can’t easily be made into a user-selectable feature. That makes everyone happy.

Who actually gives a fuck?

A lot of people do.

What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager’s snarky “who cares” attitude doesn’t mean that this isn’t important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.

Have you not been reading articles on this topic? Yes, we are talking about a 32 hour work week with no loss in pay.

This is not reddit… Lol

You know what, reddit was filled with people who got upset when others tried to help them improve. Let’s not take that with us here.

I, for one, am grateful when others point out a mistake because it helps me to become better. That’s the mentality we should encourage here.