Why would my way of counting the approval ratio rather than approval-only be of any disadvantage?

That’s just how voting systems work. Even seemingly insignificant changes to the algorithm can have outsized impacts on how well it performs.

Plurality versus Approval is a specific example of this. Just changing “choose one” to “choose as many as you approve of” significantly impacts the amount of data that’s captured and often the outcome because of the effects on voters’ behaviors.

I liked the suggestion of more information. When we have it all figured out those details should be included as you suggested.

They’ve been essentially read-only for years, in my experience. It’s stupid to go closed source, but they weren’t easy to work with to get things fixed before now either.

A moderation bot that collated reports against rules and selected active users to vote on if the rule was broken or not seems like a useful thing to create to me.

Batching these into small groups and assembling a jury to decide if a particular rule was broken by each of the 1-7 reported posts should be a short task for the people involved. As long as the same people don’t always end up being selected for the jury the results should be mostly good too.

Excess should be used for bounties to get features we want implemented added to Lemmy.

A high enough bounty and they can hire a part-time developer to work on our selected improvement.

CPG Grey has a lot of good videos, but ranked voting is not the way.

Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem makes this very clear.

https://star.vote/ is a good site to keep handy if you’re looking for a more expressive voting system.

By default, choosing approval voting is the simplest way with very good performance.

https://youtu.be/orybDrUj4vA

Try Seal & VLC instead of streaming.

https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html

Also, LibreTorrent is useful for when you want to download something small.

https://gitlab.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent

Nay.

I don’t like bots much, but this is still an assumption. I don’t want to get into preventative de-federation, if it is at all possible to avoid it.

The Meta/Facebook instance(s) should be though.

Is it too late to add the link?

https://mastodon.social/users/QasimRashid/statuses/110589556149485451

Open + Captcha

I would absolutely support keeping Meta away.

The known downsides far out weigh the potential benefits.