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People were asking such questions since at least 1997. Slashdot had the (imo, great) idea of rotating various voting privileges randomly. Raph Levien's Advogato

People were asking such questions since at least 1997. Slashdot had the (imo, great) idea of rotating various voting privileges randomly. Raph Levien's Advogato used a network of trusted users and certification which was designed to be resistant against attack. Kuro5hin also had some novel ideas about what was needed to create robust high quality discussion (which turned out to be an obvious failure, but potentially something one could learn from). But at some point, sites decided that experimenting with stuff like that was unimportant compared to just bringing in more users. Letting everyone vote all the time obviously has huge issues, but it's emotionally satisfying to downvote, so it keeps users engaged. The people most prone to dominate the site with voting on everything and coordinating efforts, are also the ones which will complain most loudly if they don't dominate the discussion. So just give them what they want. It worked. Experimenting with self-moderation mechanisms went extremely out of fashion.

pixl97 7y ago
One thing I dislike about most current voting/moderation systems is they are one dimensional, you get up or down (or in the case of FB they only have a point dimension of upvote). I'd love a system were you could get 2 vote choices per post and then have 8 or more vote options. Like/dislike (or agree/disagree), off topic/on topic, factually correct/factually incorrect, funny/hateful, user is a prick/user is a swell guy, or whatever seems like a good option for the discussion forum. I mean, something can be funny, but off topic at the same time. Or something can be factually correct but the person making the post can be a real jerk about it.
- Faark 7y ago
  Valve added a "Funny" button to steam reviews, since many top reviews were great jokes but had little substantial in them. I feel like it helped at least somewhat. I also have a hard time believing the GP that there is no experimentation anymore. Probably a lot more subtle, but you can do a lot of stuff behind the scene without giving feedback to the user. I'd be shocked if there is not at least some form of shadowbanning bad actors.

pixl97 7y ago

One thing I dislike about most current voting/moderation systems is they are one dimensional, you get up or down (or in the case of FB they only have a point dimension of upvote). I'd love a system were you could get 2 vote choices per post and then have 8 or more vote options. Like/dislike (or agree/disagree), off topic/on topic, factually correct/factually incorrect, funny/hateful, user is a prick/user is a swell guy, or whatever seems like a good option for the discussion forum. I mean, something can be funny, but off topic at the same time. Or something can be factually correct but the person making the post can be a real jerk about it.

Faark 7y ago
Valve added a "Funny" button to steam reviews, since many top reviews were great jokes but had little substantial in them. I feel like it helped at least somewhat. I also have a hard time believing the GP that there is no experimentation anymore. Probably a lot more subtle, but you can do a lot of stuff behind the scene without giving feedback to the user. I'd be shocked if there is not at least some form of shadowbanning bad actors.