- Joined
- Jun 27, 2024
I think Null should consider leaning into this concept with the exclusion of stickers on the eventual forum rewrite. Maybe an incremental rating system but dressed up into 'disagree' and 'agree' in varying degrees so retards don't get (as) mad at it. And make it so you can't reply to a post you've given consensus to without removing your consensus, and can't put your consensus on a post you have already replied to. Relegate it fully to its role as a non intrusive way to give simple feedback to a post that doesn't warrant a full reply. All of the user's ratings combined are averaged to an overall bar below the post, replacing stickers' location. And clicking on it shows the individual consensuses given by the different users, like how the stickers work now. And for the love of God get rid of anything even remotely resembling internet points like reaction score.I'm in the same boat. When I first joined the Farms, I used the stickers to gauge whether a post was far off base or not. Something like "Jeets are indispensable to our modern Internet." getting nothing but wrong stickers would inform me I was way too off base and cause me to look more into my position. I understood it as a "I'm too fucking lazy to type something but you're wrong or right about this."

