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

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[–]whistlepig 16 insightful - 16 fun16 insightful - 15 fun17 insightful - 16 fun -  (3 children)

Well.. this site is dead. The silly idea that downvotes are a bad thing has prevented users from having the tools needed to adjust what they see. Se we end up with a bunch of gross crap and stupid censorship. The effort to make everyone happy in a centralized manner has predictably resulted in nobody being happy.

[–]hennaojichan 22 insightful - 7 fun22 insightful - 6 fun23 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

This was sent by a bot. [Because there are so many comments I need to explain that my comment,"This comment was sent by a bot,,,was intended for the OP.] At least he/it is upvoted by bots. Otherwise, why is the vote equal. Do you guys live in Tel Aviv? Are you still near the petrol pump? You really aren't fooling anyone. If Saidit had downvotes, you guys could control everything here just like on reddit, right? Are you Voat or reddit members? Or are you intel? One of those or you are simply paid=by-the-hour assholes.

Jason: For once I disagree with you. These guys have evil intent and wish to hurt saidit's reputation to bring it down. They have nothing positive to say and banning them now is the best alternative in my opinion. Call it censorship but since they clearly are bent on spreading malicious, illogical nonsense I believe banning is called for.

[–]LarrySwinger2 6 insightful - 10 fun6 insightful - 9 fun7 insightful - 10 fun -  (1 child)

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.

[–]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.