It creates a circle jerk and mundane culture that not only gets hostile to opinions that differ from the hivemind but also contributes to the overall quality of the website becoming worse.
Want to see a great example? Go to reddit and bathe in its endless sea of pun jokes and watch as anybody who isnt a liberal in college get downvoted when they post one of their opinions on anything.
It's largely why I've come here to get away from that. I really didn't enjoy the idea of having to conform my own opinions or statements to be suitable for the environment I'm in.
People here have been incredibly kind and it's lacked that hive mind mentality from what I've seen.
Wouldn't say that it is the up/down system that contributes to this but rather that, when a community becomes large, the content that appeals to the lowest common denominator bubbles to the top.
No reason this won't happen to a purely up vote system. Snapzu is the way it is, because of the people using it not the system.
watch as anybody who isnt a liberal in college get downvoted when they post one of their opinions on anything.
Your bias is showing. A lot of these "college liberals" are also very dismissive and even downright hateful towards women, minorities, and, of course, fat people.
Go ahead and got post a conservative view on the up coming elections, or economics, or foreign policy, or about Obama, and come back and report to me how negative you went.
It creates a circle jerk and mundane culture that not only gets hostile to opinions that differ from the hivemind but also contributes to the overall quality of the website becoming worse.
Want to see a great example? Go to reddit and bathe in its endless sea of pun jokes and watch as anybody who isnt a liberal in college get downvoted when they post one of their opinions on anything.
It's largely why I've come here to get away from that. I really didn't enjoy the idea of having to conform my own opinions or statements to be suitable for the environment I'm in.
People here have been incredibly kind and it's lacked that hive mind mentality from what I've seen.
Wouldn't say that it is the up/down system that contributes to this but rather that, when a community becomes large, the content that appeals to the lowest common denominator bubbles to the top.
No reason this won't happen to a purely up vote system. Snapzu is the way it is, because of the people using it not the system.
Your bias is showing. A lot of these "college liberals" are also very dismissive and even downright hateful towards women, minorities, and, of course, fat people.
Go ahead and got post a conservative view on the up coming elections, or economics, or foreign policy, or about Obama, and come back and report to me how negative you went.