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This will increase the engagement with them thus increasing the chances they stick around.
(Uh, I know you like sliders but please don't make yet another one for this, just use a switch that's turned on by default so people can at least opt out of this.)
I think encouraging existing users to upvote is a good idea. I made the upvotes give more instant impact and hover over effect. I stopped myself before animating an upvote. But these upvotes should be delivering a little more dopamine now. We just need to make a push for upvoting so people will see it's fun to upvote things.
Also besides numbers first time posters really want to see conversation happen. I sometimes look for posts that have zero replies to comment in. Top right now are unfortunately some 50 minute videos. That's a big ask to ask people to watch those and give a comment. Probably not going to happen.
But my encouragement is with the shorter content if someone took the time to share something or write something, be a nice guy and say something back.
I try to updoot everything I see worthy - and lean more generous to non-regulars.
It's not fun. It's inconvenient. And when you add up dozens, hundreds, or thousands of updoots that's a lot of time and calories you'll never get back. But morally it's the correct thing to do - as well as logically correct thing to do if you want to see more good content, if you want posters to share more good content, and if you want sites to host more good content.
Couldn't agree more.
This is where 3 of my development requests could come in handy.
In addition to metatags and search, when you drop in the link it auto-fetches the video title - and could also auto-fetch the time-length, creator, and publish-date. (The publish date could be hidden with creator-hover-over-reveal if it's under 1 month old, and auto-revealed thereafter when people revisit.)
All of these metatags could feature their own subs (ie. "The Jimmy Dore Show" feed), be sortable (ie. "videos" + "<10 minutes" + "May 2025"), and/or be searchable. (All YouTube, Rumble, BitChute, etc. should automatically be sub-categories of "videos".)
Stinks of desperation.
Another idea: Share view counts and/or click-through counts. This will show that folks are active even if they don't vote.
IMO, having a single vote number is deceptive, especially when you have two more measures (+0|-0) and you have the custom sliders. Just put the two measures where the one is.
The whole GUI needs work.
Tracking view counts is a good idea. The numbers will be deceptive though without me trying to be deceptive. On a small site like this the amount of bot traffic is pretty large, so your posts are getting requested quite a bit.
For my own curiosity it would be cool to measure page requests, page requests coupled with a javascript confirm back, and confirmed click though from another page. It would be interesting to see just how much the numbers deviate. Then I could make that public so we all have a better sense of how traffic moves on the internet.
Over-cluttering things would not be good, but a hover-over page stats icon would be nice.
Yeah, hover over seems to be the go to way to get more available data on the page with less clutter. A good idea would be showing one of those three stats and a hover over shows the other two.