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List articles and the increase in junk posts on DN

over 4 years ago from Ken Em

  • Ken Em, over 4 years ago

    While we are at it, can the site performance be improved? DN is easily and consistently the slowest site I visit. Each page load takes 15-30 seconds, even for a page with no comments. Pages with numerous comments take longer.

    -1 points
    • Account deleted over 4 years ago

      While we're doing that, can we remove downvotes on comments too please?

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      • Ken Em, over 4 years ago

        Why?

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        • Account deleted over 4 years ago

          Because they stifle legitimate comments and trolls downvote you for disagreeing with completely objective points. It's happened to me plenty of times, and as silly as it seems, getting downvoted makes people not want to express their opinions, so you get a nice echo chamber effect, which makes for some pretty one sided discussions which seems dumb on a discussion board.

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          • Ken Em, over 4 years ago

            Understood, but I disagree. I view comments like any other content. I either think it's good content or it's not. I've also used downvoting on comments that were made by people who were simply being jerks, trollish or abusive.

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            • Account deleted over 4 years ago

              That might be how you view things but it's not really how it is. This comment:

              https://imgur.com/a/PyShm1b

              answers what someone is saying with proof and it gets downvoted, and this happens pretty much daily. It just makes this board appear juvenile.

              1 point
              • Ken Em, over 4 years ago

                Perhaps that person had another reason to downvote your comment. If it's something you're taking personally, these up and down votes really don't mean anything in the grand scheme. :)

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                • Account deleted over 4 years ago

                  Yeah that's what Im saying though. In terms of contributing to a discussion downvotes dont work because people downvote other people because they're still salty from something that was said about their dribbble post 2 months ago. It seems juveline and it kills genuine discussion.

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                  • Ken Em, over 4 years ago

                    I guess we will have to agree to disagree. My opinion is certainly valid, as is yours. If I see people being jerks in the comments, I'm going to downvote them.

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                  • David ThornDavid Thorn, over 4 years ago

                    Redistribute the downvotes.

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                    • Account deleted over 4 years ago

                      An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, yo.

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    • James LaneJames Lane, over 4 years ago

      I've raised this with one of the community managers.

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      • Ken Em, over 4 years ago

        Thanks. Wouldn't site performance be a matter for the developers?

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        • James LaneJames Lane, over 4 years ago

          Yes, but I'm not even sure if the developer that I used to talk to still works there, I haven't seen him online for a long time so the best I can do is that at the moment.

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          • Ken Em, over 4 years ago

            Ok, thanks. Unfortunately, that's not a good sign. :(

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            • James LaneJames Lane, over 4 years ago

              No and I agree. If I had access, I'd attempt to fix it, but I'm just an admin, don't have code access and technically don't work at Tiny, this is all done in my own time.

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