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

Pretty much useless if the other person is a troll. Nothing u say is gonna work

Government astroturfs love using the bottom two methods

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

Wonder if it would be possible to use AI to automatically characterize a comment's position in the pyramid, and assign it a color or other visual cue to indicate that it's pointless for good faith humans to engage

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Great idea!

Perhaps in lieu of A.I., have a better updoot system like my MetaVote™ idea indicate the flavour of comments and posts.