• mlg@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Because the vote system inherently supports popularity which creates content masking issues and usually results in communities with mods that want to keep that system.

    Stack overflow has this exact same issue where stupid crap gets upvoted and useful stuff gets nuked so users don’t see things that would otherwise be important or useful.

    Lemmy somewhat avoids it due to the relatively low number of posts, but that could easily change.