ShadowRunner

That’s not the fault of people, it’s the fault of the UX design. Because psychologically, the most natural interpretation is Like/Dislike.

In addition, while using it as a Like/Dislike can cause valid opinions to be lost when it comes to comments, it’s far more useful at the thread level, where you do want thread positions to be based on what the users of that thread want to see versus don’t want to see.

However, someone else made an alternate suggestion, which is to have 4 arrows instead of 2.

One set covers Like/Dislike, while the other set covers Relevant/Not Relevant. I’m not sure that applies on the thread level, but it might be a nice enhancement for comments.

It also constrains people from participating in the community if the things they support or object to would cause harassment or harm from people who know who they are, which is not always preventable, for example a shared household, using kbin from work (activity monitored), etc…

I could easily see an Amazon worker getting fired because they were logged upvoting pro-union threads. They wouldn’t even need to be doing this from a company network - just accessing kbin once on their network for any reason would have their user name associated with them, and then Amazon can simply monitor their activity on kbin even when they are using it from home.

Sequestering is absolutely not bullshit. It’s done for very important reasons and judges are very careful about not ordering it unless it’s truly necessary.

You’re ignoring the other effects of third party apps - which is to have significantly added to the number of users they have to show ads to in the first place.

Making their API free encouraged active development which increased user engagement. So it absolutely did increase their revenue because it helped to increase the popularity of their site in the first place.

There is an option that reddit has zero ability to stop:

If redditors band together and commit to boycott any company who advertises through reddit until reddit reverses their changes.

Companies have been very careful about trying to not get tied into the protests. But now we make it so that reddit is poisoned fruit.

There is nothing reddit can do to stop this. No rules they can change to subvert it, because we can publicize this boycott on any and every other platform if they try to silence us.

Boycott companies that advertise through reddit, and that will throw a major wrench in their current income as well as further sour their IPO prospects.

A number of years ago, they stopped recommending and teaching tourniquets because they were concerned about people losing limbs unnecessarily if tourniquets were to be applied unnecessarily.

However, then the Boston Marathon bombing occurred and the California nightclub shooting and they realized that they had made a tragic mistake because a lot of people lost their lives when they could have been saved.

So now, tourniquets are once again recommended and taught.

I disagree with you.

I’ve seen downvoting used very often to very quickly make trolls, spam, and highly offensive attacks disappear at the bottom.

You and everyone else in the fediverse needs to stop with this fanaticism that anything centralized is automatically a bad thing.

Changes have to be made in the pay scale first, and then we can remove tipping…

I understand what you’re saying, but that’s just not how things work. As long as tipping is the norm, that pay scale will never change.

The only way it will change is if tipping stops and restaurants find themselves with no staff because they can no longer hire anyone for $2/hour.

Sometimes, communal sacrifice is the only way to get bad practices to change. I agree with you that it hurts, but the simple fact is that restaurants will not stop underpaying staff unless they are forced to.

And attempts to put this into law was fought by the servers themselves because enough of them make more money off of tips than they would from a straight salary.

So it’s just not going to happen unless society forces their hand by saying “no, this is ridiculous” and stops paying extra for everything.

It shows 5 if you scan w14.monkrus.ws.

And this is Quttera’s analysis here:
https://quttera.com/detailed_report/w14.monkrus.ws

Whether there is a real problem or not, it might be something the monkrus admins want to look into in order to address it.

But if anyone else has a better understanding of what’s going on with their site, I’d love to hear it and it’s probably good information for the rest of this sub.