• Rimu@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    How the hell does an article that we can’t even read get so many upvotes.

    Stuff like this really shakes my belief in the voting system.

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        4 months ago

        My take as well.
        Was recently “assaulted” by a load of China-stans. So I assume this is similar pro-china (neutral about it) or at least anti-US (positive about that) community upvoting it.

        • Girl Named ZERO (she/her)@piefed.zeromedia.vip
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          4 months ago

          Yeah, I certainly don’t wanna just blindly promote china, they do a lot of things I find abhorrent, but it can’t be denied that they are so much better than the US in a number of areas.

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      4 months ago

      Because hate for AI is so blind that you can post anything and people will immediately fall for it.

      • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        Also any win or loss for China gets upvoted to oblivion by the tankies or sinophobes respectively.

    • Barrington@feddit.org
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      4 months ago

      It’s one of those subscription blocks you can get around by selecting reading mode in Firefox.

      I’m not sure if it works for other browsers but I was able to read the article.

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      4 months ago

      People only read the title, not the article

      You can’t require reading the article before someone vote/comment, but what if communities could enable “ponder voting” where users can only vote 30 seconds after viewing the post? This would prevent people from scrolling by from voting, but people who at least slightly skim the article first won’t be affected.

      Probably not viably due to it having to be supported by all platforms, but just a thought.

    • m532@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Just get rid of votes and display the social credit score instead.