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The fact that so many people have the need for throwaway counts entirely disputes the concept that this problem is easy to solve. The upvote/downvote system is
by SlowRobotAhead 6y ago
The fact that so many people have the need for throwaway counts entirely disputes the concept that this problem is easy to solve.
The upvote/downvote system is designed to reinforce echo chambers and create a chilling effect for your “real” opinion if you know it doesn’t agree with the hive.
That system is already trying to solve the problem and instead creating a different one.
All you can do with an invite system is to make sure the echo chamber is even more structured. That “those people” aren’t even allowed to join. Hello country club.
- hundchenkatze 6y agoIn this system you could still have throwaways, but the throwaway has to be invited/created from another account. This way you can create as many throwaways as needed but if you behave badly with your throwaway and it gets banned, then your main account is prevented from inviting new users and creating throwaways. Trolls could create new, primary, accounts but someone would still need to invite them back in. I definitely don't think that this would eliminate them, but it could potentially slow them down.
- 3pt14159 6y agoAnd because the moderators have the tree of invites it's pretty easy to determine which branches are yielding troll accounts and prune further up if necessary.