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[–]Akali 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

/u/magnora7 how about having more mods? Because right now, the front page is just filled with these.

[–]SubliminalCriminal 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

it is so easy to do a little fake voting... it takes all of less than two minutes to register a new login account, you arent even required to use an email address, lol... and then all you need to do is to re-login using those throwaway logins and then vote up your post... it takes usually no more than eight or ten fake upvotes to get to the top of the front page.

every thing on the front page now is the result of fake votes, i am quite sure.

[–]Akali 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

You've got a point, it should require email confirmation just to slow it down.

[–]SubliminalCriminal 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

maybe, maybe not... you see, i think that true solutions are not found by simply altering what it is that the others are doing.. sometimes the solution can only be found by first defining what it is that the problem really is and/or is not..

what is the purpose or function of voting for posts? i see it as a way to programmatically sort the posts according from best or most popular first in a listing...

but what might be an even better way to sort the posts? how about dont sort them at all?

how about instead of voting, how about if we keep track of how long people spend viewing a particular post? and allow that to be the vote that tells us how popular a post is or is not?

ok, i gotta go now, my dog and i have a date scheduled for this evening, we light candles in the bathroom and we drink out of the toilet and we sing old sailor songs..

woof.

[–]Akali 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

That's interesting. Comments should increase their ranking as well. This way it would be easy to see which comment are from bots and which one aren't.

[–]SubliminalCriminal 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

when you get right down to it, why dont we just allow the users of this forum to sort the view of messages/posts how they want to sort them..

they could sort the posts according to most time viewed, most number of times viewed, etc..

instead of having some unknown and confusing softing algorithm..