Quote Originally Posted by Marshmallow Marshall View Post
If there were an upvote/downvote system here, I'm pretty sure the site would devolve into an unhealthy climate of either conflict or forced consensus for the reasons you stated. It's a bad thing, and I think that beyond sc2mafia, it has a significant impact on society as a whole by strenghtening echo chambers and the feeling of normality and uniformity.
It got me thinking about how you get those crazy subreddits like incel subreddits that espouse views that would have to be extremely carefully defended in the real world, but on those subreddits those views are bandied about like it's common sense. And I think a lot of it is probably due to the fact these subreddits are all compartmentalized and then have these upvote/downvote systems that basically allow every niche opinion to exist in total isolation, totally unchallenged.

It's like that game ozy (or me? I don't remember) brought up in the other thread where ppl guess how many jelly beans are in the jar. Reddit is a world where all the ppl who guessed numbers wildly high can segregate themselves from society and circlejerk eachother about how based their estimates are. It totally violates the natural triangulation process nature probably intended.