How “engagement” made the web a less engaging place
Upvoting something is not bad, but it becomes bad if every upvote is not based on an expressable reason beyond I agree, support, etc. with no valid reasoning.<p>Likes would be a lot more meaningful if randomly the user was required to express the reasoning behind why they liked something. If the user showed a pattern of not being able to express why they liked something, at the very least, other users would not see their vote as part of the count.<p>This would also likely increase the cost for &quot;like spammers&quot; - but the real value would be that likes were more meaningful.