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

My worry is that power users will control the content and comments. Power users tend to fuck up the content on reddit, which is something I don't like about reddit. Seeing a bunch of shitty posts by Gallowboob or the way that Unidan just dominated every conversation he was in regardless of how correct he was screwed things up. I think maybe it might be in order to increase the threshold as voat grows, but as it is, there are so few users that the threshold essentially forces one to be relatively active in order to have voting privileges.

I've never heard of an online community where lurkers desperately participate only to be able to become lurkers again. Lurkers would probably either not care enough to participate to the point that they can lurk again (but with voting privileges), or become used to participating and then continue to participate.

Even if you are right, I can't imagine that those participate-in-order-to-lurk users would make up a large portion of the userbase. And in the mean time, submissions will get stuck with low vote counts which, like it or not, tend to indicate insignificance.

I don't like the idea of making it easier for power users to dominate the content. The way it works right now is that it encourages people to participate in some fashion but doesn't give special abilities to people who might just spam content all day until they can "afford" to down vote anyone who disagrees with them while that downvoted user might only be participating in scant spare time and can't make up the vote difference.

Another idea to hold someone accountable for their voting is to make user votes public, but that comes with its own problems.