> We'll develop consensus systems that will be better than the old system. Oh yeah, so the blockchain will somehow save this? (cough) The best "consensus" sys

> We'll develop consensus systems that will be better than the old system. Oh yeah, so the blockchain will somehow save this? (cough) The best "consensus" system we've got for social media / forums is the upvote / downvote and that is a horrible indicator of truthfulness / factfullness / quality of something. Upvote / downvote is only an indicator of the prevailing groupthink on any given forum -- it is not a substitute for a reality check.