Hey Magnora7, would you rather cut off your nose to spite your face?

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[–]LarrySwinger2 6 insightful - 10 fun6 insightful - 9 fun7 insightful - 10 fun -  (9 children)

Don't get paranoid. Look at their profile to see that it's a real person. Especially the fact that they're moderating a real sub. His point is valid as well. The solution to the voting system being abused is a weighed voting system, where established members have more voting power. Paired with growing the site, so that there are enough real people to vote things properly.

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    [–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

    He's only been here a year. SaidIt is at least 3. Is this his only alias?

    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    I haven't been around long enough to know what his other aliases are.

    [–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    If they even have any other aliases. That's the only way any of what they've said makes sense.

    I also wondered if you had a magic IP-finder wand.

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

    Good point: most of these trolls joined saidit within roughly a year ago. I am not usually one to call for banning but since in this case I am calling/asking that they be IP banned unless they are using VPNs and I suspect they are.

    [–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    I thought henna was calling whistlepig a bot. Calling Anon a bot doesn't make sense either; his recent comments are real ones (just like his earlier ones).

    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Either way, they seem like real users to me.

    [–]NeedMoreCoffee 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

    The voting system fails due to psychology. If you see 2 posts one that is upvoted and one is downvoted most people will add upvotes to the upvoted post and downvote the downvoted one even if the upvoted one is completely factual wrong and the downvoted one is completely correct.

    An elite voting system will not change that. People are stupid.

    Also alt accounts and bots will have a lot more power to manipulate votes which will result in more of what i wrote on top ending up with subs that look like circlejerks

    At least this way new users won't be discouraged in posting when they make an innocent comment and get 50 downvotes like on reddit.

    [–]hennaojichan 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Thanks for the encouragement [LarrySwinger]. I just do not understand this uprising against the people who created this site. Whether they are bots, shills or people who think and vote like bots matters little to me. People and bots have been infiltrating this site for a long time and their intentions are not good. That country in the ME simply must control or destroy any group that calls them out and this was arranged by them; the rise of Skynet.