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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.