Shouldn't low quality posts be punished? The fact that posting gets you benefits encourages posting a lot and if there is no disincentive to making low quality posts my best bet to level quickly is to just comment on every snap I see with whatever comes to mind.
That's coming as a new user, and is a real question.
Well for one, I believe posting many low quality posts does hurt your reputation because it makes it harder to raise. Makes sense as it is a percentage. And the point of the downvote isn't to punish lower quality posts. It is to punish spam. The upvote button, however, is to reward quality posts. So, if it isn't spam and it isn't high quality, it should fit right in the middle as neither an upvote nor a downvote.
I would just not upvote it. It's a low quality post but isn't spam.
Shouldn't low quality posts be punished? The fact that posting gets you benefits encourages posting a lot and if there is no disincentive to making low quality posts my best bet to level quickly is to just comment on every snap I see with whatever comes to mind.
That's coming as a new user, and is a real question.
Well for one, I believe posting many low quality posts does hurt your reputation because it makes it harder to raise. Makes sense as it is a percentage. And the point of the downvote isn't to punish lower quality posts. It is to punish spam. The upvote button, however, is to reward quality posts. So, if it isn't spam and it isn't high quality, it should fit right in the middle as neither an upvote nor a downvote.