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  • O kurcze, no to lipa. Dziwna sprawa. Czy moderacja wymaga aż tak wiele? Czy były ataki botów które chcą z lemmiego zrobić gówno żeby zniechęcić userów? Np stworzone na zlecenie konkurenta jakim jest reddit?

    Ciekawe że nie udało im się jakoś zautomatyzować tej moderacji. Jestem ciekaw jak często i jak wyglądały te “ataki”, że dali za wygraną.

    Nas nikt w zasadzie nie atakuje, bo jesteśmy zbyt mali i nieznaczący. Spokój wynika z małej liczby userów.










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    1 month ago

    Something has to fill up the hole waiting to be filled up. There is a big need for anti-woke reddit-type discussion, in old forums like style, searchable with google, without character limit.

    Reddit is being built for 20 years and only now it turned profit. I don’t see how there could suddenly a reddit direct competitor would be born. I don’t know how the future looks like, but I surely love to see the reddit stock market downfall and their user base shrinking.





  • If USA wants a deal with Russia, I only wonder what can they offer that Europe cannot. They have bigger energy market that’s one thing. But USA has it’s own resources, will they want to buy oil and gas from Russia in big quantities? They also can’t make Russia too strong if they for example want to give them some high tech. Cause Russia will always (?) have better relationship with China than with US (will they?) and if there is 3WW, in current world I think we all agree on the fact that Russia pairs with China against NATO. What else can they offer? I guess keeping supplying Ukraine with military equipment is also some kind of lever. US could just hide this fact from the public. There is also a matter of sanctions but how big of an impact do they have on Russia in reality?

    And how does China fits in this?


  • If USA wants a deal with Russia, I only wonder what can they offer that Europe cannot. They have bigger energy market that’s one thing. But USA has it’s own resources, will they want to buy oil and gas from Russia in big quantities? They also can’t make Russia too strong if they for example want to give them some high tech. Cause Russia will always(?) have better relationship with China than with US (will they?) and fighting with both would be difficult. What else can they offer? I guess keeping supplying Ukraine with military equipment is also some kind of lever. US could just hide this fact from the public.

    And how does China fits in this?


  • If USA wants a deal with Russia, I only wonder what can they offer that Europe cannot. They have bigger energy market that’s one thing. But USA has it’s own resources, will they want to buy oil and gas from Russia in big quantities? They also can’t make Russia too strong if they for example want to give them some high tech and chips. Cause Russia will always(?) have better relationship with China than with US (will they?) and fighting with both would be difficult. What else can they offer? I guess keeping supplying Ukraine with military equipment is also some kind of lever. US could just hide this fact from the public.

    And how does China fits in this?







  • Yeah, techical should have actually objectively best comments on top. I don’t agree that in this category the earliest comment wins. Maybe sometimes, but usually I don’t think so. It depends on the size of the thread if people go through the whole section or just small piece. But that’s my opinion but to prove it we would need data.

    The value in controversial category is that people dont upvote just because others upvote. It demands thought from a user.

    I think ultimately it’s about whether you want to seek the actual truth and getting somewhere with the discussion or not. Truth can only be discovered when thinking is turned on.



  • I asked ChatGPT about existing experiments on this matter. Sheep behavious is real:

    Key Studies: The “Hidden Votes” Experiment (Muchnik et al., 2013)

    One of the most well-known studies on this topic was published in Science by Muchnik, Aral, and Taylor. Researchers manipulated upvotes and downvotes on a social news site (similar to Reddit) with 100,000+ users. When an initial upvote was artificially added to a post, it increased the likelihood that others would upvote it by 32%. Downvotes did not have the same effect—they were often corrected by other users. The experiment suggests strong social influence in voting behavior. “Bandwagon Effect in Online Voting” (Lorenz et al., 2011)

    This study found that when people saw public votes before casting their own, they converged towards the majority opinion. The effect was particularly strong in subjective judgments, like ratings of art or music. YouTube and Social Proof (Salganik, Dodds, & Watts, 2006)

    In a controlled music experiment, researchers manipulated download counts for different songs. Songs with high fake download numbers became even more popular, showing strong herding behavior. “Hidden Likes” Experiment on Instagram (2019)

    Instagram conducted real-world A/B testing by removing visible like counts in several countries. Initial reports suggested reduced social pressure, but Meta has not released detailed statistics. What Happens When Votes Are Hidden? Some studies show that without visible votes, people rely more on personal judgment instead of following the herd. However, others found that herding still happens when other subtle signals (such as comments, engagement, or reposts) remain.