From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It had post voting, but no comment voting.

    Doesn’t your screenshot show the opposite?

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought you could only upvote / downvote posts. Comments were just a thread, and whoever commented first was at the top.

      Hence why a lot of our early shitposting was just commenting “first” as soon as an interesting post when live.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yes, it didn’t re-sort by default. You can, however, hide based on score. so kinda?

        They also used to (maybe they still do) have meta-moderation where you could flag things as funny or insightful. I always considered that a nice touch but it didn’t allow sorting either. .