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[–] rwbj 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

No. Right now voat is already getting hurt by the voting system. This sort of voting system works great for smaller communities but once things get large and people begin arbitrarily downvoting as a sort of 'disagree' button it ends up creating circle jerks since you end up effectively censoring less popular ideas and bringing ideas that the largest (or most active voting) plurality likes to ever more visibility even when the venues are completely inappropriate. For instance here is a topic that's supposed to be about Elon Musk discussing the impact and theory of human reliance on fossil fuels. The most upvoted comment by a landslide is somebody who decided to make a brief anti-immigration comment. Yay for voting systems, right?

When the site was smaller this wasn't a big deal since there was so little traffic people could view just about everything and the votes didn't actually matter that much. I, like most people, used to view primarily /v/all. But now the site's gotten far too big for that. /v/all is now getting something like a hundred submissions an hour. Consequently we're left to rely on votes, but this voting system sucks since most people don't up/down vote all that frequently, and those that do tend to do so in a less than responsible fashion. We're turning into the same circle jerk type of community we all liked to deride Reddit for. It's different politics for sure, but the same stupidity. It looks like in the near future starting to sort comments over here by new will actually end up providing more interesting content than sorting by best - something that's long since been the case on Reddit.

So no, the last thing we need to do is to add more user content sorting that effects other users. If you want to block something, block it for yourself. The last thing we need to do is dive even further down circle jerk land.

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[–] Deathchild95 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I have to disagree with this. There are quite a few people that block several porn subs that I would never find out about if it was done this way.

Maybe base it off of the subscribers for that sub and howany upvoats it gets so a sub verse that has 5k subscribers and a post has 3 upvoats it wont be seen. But a sub that has 30 subscribers and a post that has 8 upvoats will. If this is not already a thing

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[–] Draegur 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I believe that it should be a factor. I was thinking of something along these lines myself.

Well, what about Front? Sure we mostly just browse All because Voat is still too small as yet, but All should be a 'walk through the danger zone' where anything can pop up, the 'raw experience' if you will. If you haven't gone out of your way to block it yourself, it's there.

Front is more of the tailored experience where you've specifically promoted certain things and maybe want a little guidance to what you might run into by chance. In situations like THOSE, such a system as the one you propose might actually be useful.

Plus I'm really really interested in the stats too!!

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[–] whisky_cat ago 

Seems more useful that a spam flag on a user would be in the sort algorithm, but it's a slippery slope...