When I started using reddit about 7 years ago, it was a bastion of intelligent, sometimes irreverent community discussion. But with things like this, and the recent talk of "segregating" communities which reddit "wishes didn't exist", its become a very different place. The mass logging of users by a certain segment of those users is extremely troubling. It actually makes me watch my words, and where I comment. The path they're going is having a chilling effect on speech right now.
Its an awful shame, and what's crazier is that in their zeal to make a safe place, they're enabling shaming and bullying on a massive level. I don't even think the SJWs behind this even comprehend what they're doing.
Reddit will fall. And where the people go, the SJWs will go also to yell at them. How will Voat handle them when they eventually come?
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[–] Shagoosty 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Giving more power to some for arbitrary reasons is a terrible idea.
[–] 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.