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Disincentives to voting give more abstract value to an upmod. Right now the only thing that gives an upmod value is that you can only upmod a story once. Witho
by tel 19y ago
Disincentives to voting give more abstract value to an upmod. Right now the only thing that gives an upmod value is that you can only upmod a story once.
Without some sort of constraint the only thing keeping people from upmodding continuously and rampantly is... RSI!
- greendestiny 19y agoWe're still talking about a single upvote per article. Its just that if you upvote every new article you'd end up ahead of the game whilst adding nothing of value.
- tel 19y agoBingo, I was being hyperbolic there. The core idea is that upmods and downmods need to embody some sense of value. Without a buy-in cost, the only contributing source of value is 1-vote-per-story exclusivity. Without a buy-in cost, nothing is stopping me (edit: or someone else, hah. I don't mean to implicate myself for the sake of rhetoric) from getting a bot together to upmod every single story essentially nullifying the benefit of my vote and still maximizing the return.