I tried out a couple of other Reddit replacements a few years ago before Lemmy took off, and I really enjoyed the few that had separate votes for “funny” and “insightful/contributes to discussion/whatev”.
Yeah it made voting a bit clunkier, but it did a good job of differentiating between two very different ways of positively contributing to a discussion.
Meh, funny stuff gets upvoted for being funny. At least the comment chains can be collapsed easily.
A voting system that differentiates between funny and informative would help, but sometimes comments are both…
I tried out a couple of other Reddit replacements a few years ago before Lemmy took off, and I really enjoyed the few that had separate votes for “funny” and “insightful/contributes to discussion/whatev”.
Yeah it made voting a bit clunkier, but it did a good job of differentiating between two very different ways of positively contributing to a discussion.
I don’t see why you couldn’t vote funny and helpful at the same time
It would be possible to set up that way, just couldn’t think of one off the top of my head that already allowed for picking both.
You could just do little compass of 4 points.
Funny is up, unfunny down.
Trolling left, helpful right.
Eight points so it cam be funny and helpful or funny and trolling!