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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_ARCHES ago 

What makes you think that?

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[–] OmicronPersei8 [S] ago 

Only two people control VOAT at the moment. We are at their mercy. Users have no actual power in what happens to this site.

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_ARCHES ago 

Making people pay to use the site is probably the worst thing that could happen to voat at the moment. There's no way to implement anything that would allow the level of user control you're talking about. Enjoy it while it's uncensored and then move on to the next site.

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[–] Foul_Knave ago  (edited ago)

You are always at someone's mercy. Even your utopia democratic voting site would have to be hosted somewhere. A completely decentralized p2p system would need to be developed and maintained by someone. And so on.

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[–] RedSocks157 ago 

4chan or 8ch

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[–] OmicronPersei8 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Do those sites give users voting rights for board members and policies?

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[–] RedSocks157 ago 

No, but they are the closet you will get to totally open, and total user control.

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[–] mscomies 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It would be a decentralized, peer to peer system that would be handled 100% client side. There's an App called Aether bills itself as exactly that, though, I haven't gotten around to using it myself yet.

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[–] OmicronPersei8 [S] ago 

That got me thinking, there would have to be different subs called the same thing, but run by different mods. So, the "news" sub would have several duplicates with different mods. The same with politics, science, everything really.

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_ARCHES ago 

I haven't even been able to get it to load, I left it running for 2 hours last time I tried.

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[–] kurfu ago 

Absolute democracy will ultimately lead to oppression of the minority by the majority, or in other words - "mob rule."

That's why it's important to have a system of checks and balances to stop that from happening.

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[–] OmicronPersei8 [S] ago 

Any specifics you could share would be great.