must get community support before putting these changes into effect
This sounds like a good idea in principal, however spammers and shills tend to have oceans of alts they use for vote manipulation and spamming.
Moderators tend to know the difference between legitimate members of a community and malicious alts, however that important distinction will be difficult to define in a rule or process, especially where voting in involved.
Yeah... democracy of any kind on subs would be a trainwreck. Too easy to exploit.
Fuck it, if it gets instituted I'd exploit it just to prove how risky it is. Better me taking over a generic sub then handing it back a day later than some SJW taking it just to delete everything.
I like the idea of having a community present arguments for or against a change and ask people to only acknowledge substantiated arguments based on reason rather than up or down votes or baseless personal endorsements.
One thousand up-votes or "Fuck Yeah!" comments aren't as valuable as a single argument based on informed and rational reason.
The idea is nice, the reality would not be, it's not a rule which could be enforced without making life easy on brigaders. Plenty of losers with too much time on their hands who can run an army of alts writing comments about how niggers should be about positive aspects of african american culture.
As it stands there's nothing preventing mods from making a sticky asking about rule changes.
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7584893? ago
This sounds like a good idea in principal, however spammers and shills tend to have oceans of alts they use for vote manipulation and spamming.
Moderators tend to know the difference between legitimate members of a community and malicious alts, however that important distinction will be difficult to define in a rule or process, especially where voting in involved.
7587294? ago
Yeah... democracy of any kind on subs would be a trainwreck. Too easy to exploit.
Fuck it, if it gets instituted I'd exploit it just to prove how risky it is. Better me taking over a generic sub then handing it back a day later than some SJW taking it just to delete everything.
7587422? ago
I like the idea of having a community present arguments for or against a change and ask people to only acknowledge substantiated arguments based on reason rather than up or down votes or baseless personal endorsements.
One thousand up-votes or "Fuck Yeah!" comments aren't as valuable as a single argument based on informed and rational reason.
7587796? ago
The idea is nice, the reality would not be, it's not a rule which could be enforced without making life easy on brigaders. Plenty of losers with too much time on their hands who can run an army of alts writing comments about how niggers should be about positive aspects of african american culture.
As it stands there's nothing preventing mods from making a sticky asking about rule changes.