Firstly, they de-valued upvotes and the equality that every user’s opinion had before they were introduced.
And secondly, they were so abundant that they didn’t mean anything anyway.

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    1 year ago

    Hmm, maybe instead of pay to play awards, we could give each user X number of “boosts” per day to vote on content to be featured? Perhaps with older / more active accounts getting a few more over time?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ve thought about this before too. If you had a limited amount of upvotes per day, or per amount of posts viewed, it would make them actually meaningful as there would be scarcity that you’d have to use sparingly.

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      1 year ago

      they had/have something like this in Black Desert and while any MMO general chat is always a toxic cesspool that somehow made it worse