We currently have a similar classification system. However we do not have the republic setup, I'm not sure if its something we would be interested in doing but and I will for sure discuss it.
It looks to me to be a whole lotta coding for minimal gain. I think simplicity, as we currently have on Poal beats all this psychobabble by a mile. I also think that since Voat now has an angel, Putt has far too much time on his hands to implement something completely unnecessary.
Part of me thinks and I hate to use this term, but sometimes leadership is needed to make choices when their are groups that want to control the narrative and can vote essentially infinite times. I just don't see a way to let the community do it completely on their own when a small minority can outvote the majority.
One idea that Voten had which was one to think on, was to eliminate down votes altogether. Since Voten kind of went downhill, it's hard to say if it would've worked long term, but it appeared to be a positive idea. Instead of a down vote option, they simply had an up vote capability and if you didn't like something, you just didn't vote at all. Then they had a spam button to report a link as spam to a central point. It appeared to be working great until Sully disappeared. All in all though, if the spam votes are monitored by admin and action taken, the system seemed to be a win, win.
Yeah, it stood out (credit where credit is due) as a good way to overcome the "free speech about everything everywhere, even SBBH gore in TradWives, no moderators ever at all" vs. "specialty subs can take action to emphasize the content they want to see" debate
I mean thats always been the policy here, I'll give them credit its not a bad idea, but being able to vote out moderators seems like it could be abused.
E.g: Faggit slowly replaced all the mods from what they call controversial subs that don’t fit into their narrative with paid staffers who make sure real news get filtered out.
Yeah like Owl said it seems like a good deal of complexity and ripe for loopholes, but I am glad they're trying out a new idea. It either amplifies SBBH or solves them.
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