Subj : Message voting
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jan 11 2022 12:55:47

  Re: Message voting
  By: Nightfox to echicken on Tue Jan 11 2022 09:49 am

 >   Re: Re: Versions
 >   By: echicken to Sys64738 on Tue Jan 11 2022 05:02 pm
 >
 >  ec> If the voting feature was more widely-used, then we could use votes for
 >  ec> sorting, showing, hiding messages, but there just isn't enough uptake
 >  ec> to make that worthwhile at the moment.
 >
 > I'd hope messages wouldn't be auto-sorted or auto-hidden based on their
 > votes. I'd still like to read the messages in the same order they were
 > written regardless of their votes.

The internal message reader in Synchronet has this option:
 List Messages
 H Highest ranked msgs

Which takes into account replies and votes.

 > I've also seen some online forum sites (such as Reddit) that will hide
 > messages if they have too many downvotes, but sometimes I'm curious what was
 > said that made so many people downvote it.

<downvotes this message> :-)
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