this is why reddit is more popular than the official forums for discussing poe

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jack_aubrey wrote:

GGG hosting a PoE reddit clone would do the trick.

i agree to this

they can name their new site as Path Of Reading Network

I'll try to remember this the next time I see someone's barely on-topic comment about their skyrocket.

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It's a double-edged sword.

The downvoting system on reddit also drowns out unpopular (but well-reasoned) dissent. That isn't the intended use of the thumbs-down button, but it is its de facto use.

Such an environment is what many people call an echo chamber.

Edit: On second thought, some sort of karma system would be useful for telling people they are making useless noise in the forum that is not welcome (without hiding the post in question), though I think it would also have a lot of abuse potential if it weren't implemented prudently, for example by limiting the number of thumbs-downs a person can give to the number of thumbs-ups that person has already received.