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

I wouldn't mind seeing a system where upvoting and downvoting quantities are set by your karma in that sub, so if you have 100 CCP in /v/politics then you have 100 upvotes there and 10 downvotes. It'd definitely make people think twice before voting.

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[–] gabeh73 ago  (edited ago)

that seems as logical as just automatically giving "equal" power to all users who merely sign up. Obviously paid media influencers found a quick way to destroy that system. To not try something different is worse than "arbitrary", it is the definition of insanity.

Of course, if I was paid to be a shill or sockpuppet then I would speak out against trying a different system.

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[–] Broc_Lia ago 

So long as it's limited. I wouldn't want to see early adopters in a position to enforce hegemony over other users.

Just thought: You'd have to give someone unlimited upvoats, maybe the top mod of that sub, otherwise no one would be able to get started.

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

Giving more power to some for arbitrary reasons is a terrible idea.

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[–] gabeh73 ago 

giving equal power to all users is in itself "arbitrary".

The shill bots and corporate/government shill machines use this arbitrary power structure against us. They create thousands of sock puppets and then they have the #'s and the power. How do we fight the shill machines and sock puppets? that is the question.

My suggestion was not arbitrary....it was a effort to create a metric that was correlated with demonstrated ability to interpret information better than others...a shill bot sockpuppet cannot interpret information at all....and if they do it is often maliciously. Early VOAT adapters are better than average at interpreting information in the modern media world. We saw censorship and detecting propaganda int he information war earlier than the average reddit sockpuppet of sheeplike. Giving a higher weight to entities that have this information proccessing skill is logical.