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[–] gabeh73 ago 

I thinking having voats weighted by reputation points would help....the orginial users/early adapters and conspiracy theorists who detected censorship earlier at Reddit should get more rep points and we she have the ability to down voat the rep points of those who act as shills....then when a brigade of shill robots come over here we can keep them with low voat power for longer and each one of our voats counts as more...it is meritocratic as opposed to one voat per shill (democratic), no matter how low IQ the shill has proven himself to be,

therefore when we see gullible people who believe the government propaganda on ISiS hook-line sinker...we can keep those gullible or shillples from gaining power here....then when we want to have TPP on the frontpage...it can be so....when we want information linking the US government to ISIS on the frontpage...it can be so.

it is possible that Voat is already too controlled for this to take place...free people will have to make a alternative info community at some point that make sit a little harder for paid corporate propaganda brigades to take over.

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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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[–] 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.