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[–] pettankon ago 

As for whether they are a form of self expression, that's hardly useful as most anything can be considered a form of self expression. That shouldn't/doesn't immediately make anything protected from all speech restrictions.

Personally I find voting based sorting mechanisms to pretty universally suck. People should be able to easily subscribe to content and pick and choose what they want to see based on more complex algorithms (that can be readily disabled) than simple "popular opinion" feeds. Information shouldn't simply be hidden or removed based on its lack of support and especially not automatically without user input.

With vote manipulation possible on any technological voting platform, they stop being meaningful at some point.

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[–] SaneGoatiSwear [S] 2 points -2 points (+0|-2) ago 

that there needs to be an evolution of or a replacement of the current system into a /with a better one.... i heartily agree.

until then we gotta deal with what we got, and it sucks.