Re:Rumble, an open source, offline, censorship resistant mic...
by eXpl0it3r on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:39AM
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Such a system could be easily gamed, especially since you'd also get into a positive feedback spiral, where your good reputation brings you at the top and you receive more upvotes, just because you're at the top. All you need are some bots to upvote your posts.
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Re:Rumble, an open source, offline, censorship resistant mic...
by MontyCarloHall on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:58AM
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Yup. I agree with the GP’s general premise, but I wouldn’t make high-karma posters have their comments appear higher. Instead, I’d weight their up/downvotes on other people’s comments proportional to their karma, but only in subreddits where they accrued karma. Thus, someone who accrued 10000 karma in history subreddits might get e.g. 10x the voting power in history subreddits. However, if they only had 10 karma in science subreddits, their votes would not be worth a lot there.
Of course, this is not perfect (what if someone posts about history in a science subreddit, or vice versa), but it’s a start. AFAIK no platform has tried weighted voting yet.