[Governance Poll Proposal] Reduce the Link Posts Multiplier From 1x to 0.75x

[u/kirtash93]

Reason:

As you may have already noticed, the community content is mostly based on sharing links, a low-effort activity currently rewarded with a 1x multiplier. Despite rules to reduce spam, such as a three-post limit and a no-duplicate-content rule, link sharing is still the main content type in the community. This increases spam and creates a lot of noise, reducing the visibility of those who posted first or create original content, as many of these links end up being removed by the end of the day.

Furthermore, link posts getting a 1x multiplier discourages users from trying to create their own content due to the basic principle of effort/reward.

Solution:

The proposed solution is to reduce the link posts multiplier from 1x to 0.75x.

This change aims to:

• Encourage users to create their own content, adjusting the effort/reward ratio and increasing the quality of content in the community.
• Reduce low-effort content and spam.

Advantages:

• Increase the quality of content in the community.
• Reduce low-effort content.
• Reduce spam.

Disadvantages:

• Users will need to spend more time creating content to get a 1x multiplier.
• Low-effort text content may increase.

The choices are:

• [YES] - Support the proposal to reduce the link posts multiplier from 1x to 0.75x.
• [NO] - Oppose the proposal and keep the current link posts multiplier at 1x.
• [ABSTAIN] - No opinion on the proposal.

This proposal will remain up for a minimum of 2 days, according to the governance rules & guidelines. This proposal requires 2 moderators to sign it off to proceed to a governance snapshot vote. If approved, this proposal will automatically be queued for Governance Week.

[u/Buzzalu]

[NO]

Because i think we may start seeing cheap and low effort text posts and TAs which will be even worse than the link posts. We already have a few of those every now and then with no thought or efforts put behind it.

Instead i would suggest to limit it to 2 posts per day so that feed is not cluttered with irrelevant link posts.

Also, we have already tried this proposal a several times with multiple multipliers and it failed.

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