Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

@Broken Adam  
I thought fimfiction had a like/dislike bar.

@Broken Adam  
Thank god I don’t go there then.

@Marx  
They do. And it’s super helpful.
 
How come other sites don’t have it?

@Marx  
Unlike Reddit it doesn’t “punish” or hide those fanfics, so a lot of the petty people don’t use it

While I like the concept of downvotes in general, they are rarely an indicator of quality on FiMfiction, as I usually just see people dislike gorey or gay fics as opposed to anything else. I mean that may just be what I look at there, but I don’t think it’s really fair to judge anything based on downvotes. Upvotes or faves tho, yeah.
 
Both are still subjective tho and you really need to see for yourself.

@LightningBolt  
Lol Gay Porn get downvoted on reddit too if it’s on “general porn” subreddits

@Broken Adam  
People have no idea how the downvote system’s sposed to work and just use it as a “I don’t like this” or a “I disagree” button, when nine times out of ten it’s used to filter out spam or irrelevant content.

@LightningBolt  
as opposed to here were just slapping twishimmer garanties you at least 100 upvotes.

@NorrisThePony  
I mean, yeah.
 
The upvotes are used to say “I like this”. It’s only logical to assume that the downvotes mean “I don’t like this”. Unless there’s a different meaning for upvotes, then the two are fundamentally opposites.

@Broken Adam  
Truly an unbiased and trusting gauge of quality.

@Scrabbleman  
Then Downvotes AND Upvotes both are a truly bad way to gauge quality of anything. More like “this is what the faceless masses think” which tends to be an homogenized mass of the same likes and dislikes.

@LightningBolt  
That’s why I always preferred the 5-star rating system that Newgrounds uses. Besides, if something is off-topic, why not implement a report system instead and not just downvote to hell?

@Scrabbleman  
What does off topic have to do with this.

@LightningBolt  
Nah, I meant the other comment by NorristhePony. He said something about downvotes being used to filter out irrelevant content.

@NorrisThePony  
The whole “if we weaken downvotes even a tiny bit the whole site will turn into facebook” is also one of the reasons to why reddit is hopeless
 
Especially when the most popular posts are already facebook tier One Liners and terrible dad jokes or Movie references

Make film spoiling a heavy punishable offense.

@ILoveMyoozik  

 
@Scrabbleman
 
I know fanfiction.net doesn’t. you have to rely on reviews and faves, or third-party recommendations.

No one should be using Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own is far superior in every single way.

I tried to make a fanfiction once
 
It came out so poorly that I never tried it again

People shit on CGI/CG stuff too much.

@LightningBolt  
FF.net: We want you to be creative! as long as you follow these 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 guidelines!
 
AO3: We want you to be creative and help us preserve the cultural works of fans because quality and style does not denote value as a part of the human condition, all art wi worth preserving!

@Thanotos Omega  
Yeah basically. Also FF.net disallows smut, while Ao3 is absolutely fine with it in any form. Ao3 also assumes that the reader is smart enough to read guidelines and tags.

@Broken Adam  
My first fanfic was garbage too as was my second one, but eventually i got better,
 

 
@icey wicey 1517  
Because shitty people like Doug Walker and Brad Jones shit on it for not being the things they like so the drones follow suit,

@icey wicey 1517  
True, though bad CGI or people poorly interacting with CGI can be glaring. There’s a reason some say that CGI + practical is the best in most cases.

@icey wicey 1517  
Fury Road is the benchmark imo. CGI is best when it’s used to enhance quality set design and stunt work, instead of replacing it entirely.
 
@Broken Adam
 
Reddit is also really really bad for hypocritically circlejerking the same unfunny in-jokes (we did it, Reddit!) and then REEEEing at every repost they see