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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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 1 point 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.
[–] 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.
[–] 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.