Actually, I think there's something to be said for downvoting. Not in the
reddit "i disagree" sense, but in the slashdot/ meta filter "comments
downvoted/flagged past a certain point will be hidden/deleted" sense. It
would obviously take a lot of work to make that work within the media wiki
software *and* the Wikimedia ethos, but it would probably save tons of
grief and derails if the worst of the worst comments were limited by
crowdsourced review.
On Jun 23, 2014 12:47 PM, "Daniel and Elizabeth Case" <
dancase(a)frontiernet.net> wrote:
MediaWiki's mostly impersonal interaction helps a
lot here.
No image avatars, no upvoting or downvoting of comments (something I don't
see the utility of on either Reddit or Quora, FTM). Maybe the features are
what we *don't* have.
Daniel Case
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