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Voat seems to have gained a large percentage of idiots in the past several months or over the past year. One guy tried to prove his intelligence by asking me about the binomial theorem, which I learned in 8th grade algebra. I don't expect everyone to be expert in math, but one should have some sense of one's expertise, and not be a walking embodiment of Dunning-Kruger idiocy.

A year or so ago, if I made a reasonable comment, I'd generally get an up vote. There was effectively a group mind that tended to give comments an aggregate of 1 or 0 votes. (Uncorrelated, non-group mind votes would, statistically, be more dispersed.) Now, a great many comments are left at zero.

Neither of these is that extreme, but over time, they leave me with a sense of "Why bother?"

Voat seems to have gained a large percentage of idiots in the past several months or over the past year. One guy tried to prove his intelligence by asking me about the binomial theorem, which I learned in 8th grade algebra. I don't expect everyone to be expert in math, but one should have some sense of one's expertise, and not be a walking embodiment of Dunning-Kruger idiocy. A year or so ago, if I made a reasonable comment, I'd generally get an up vote. There was effectively a group mind that tended to give comments an aggregate of 1 or 0 votes. (Uncorrelated, non-group mind votes would, statistically, be more dispersed.) Now, a great many comments are left at zero. Neither of these is that extreme, but over time, they leave me with a sense of "Why bother?"

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Yeah. It sucks. The Q folks are even dumber than the rest. It's unfortunate because voat has more links than the other sites and isn't censored.

I still go there but conversation is getting more and more not worth having.

I find that if you stick to intelligent topics only knowledgeable people have something to say. If you say something a about programming, people who understand programming will respond. If you mention the federal reserve people who understand monetary policy will mostly respond.

The ugly thing about attempting to address the Fed is that in order to make it a meme you have to make a pretty large body of people think they know something about it which means you are inviting idiots to your movement which will make people who oppose the Fed pretty dismissible to people cynical of people cynical of the Fed.