Slashdot used to have "flavoured" up/downvotes, and you could set the multipliers in your preferences! So you could turn everyone else's +1funny vote into a -2 in your view if you didn't like the site's sense of humor. That was 29 years ago. I expect my single downvote was factional.
Polarisation is a fight. "Doing something" is likely to get increasingly ugly before it gets better.
But for most websites and news organizations, polarisation is profit. Oddly not for HN, which is aggressively moderated instead.
Polarisation is a fight. "Doing something" is likely to get increasingly ugly before it gets better.
But for most websites and news organizations, polarisation is profit. Oddly not for HN, which is aggressively moderated instead.