> [Anonymous by default] honestly sounds awfully similar to 4chan. That seems shallow to me, it's only true insofar as 4chan is a well-known forum that allows

> [Anonymous by default] honestly sounds awfully similar to 4chan. That seems shallow to me, it's only true insofar as 4chan is a well-known forum that allows for anonymous posting. 4chan is ephemeral, the site I'm imagining is not. 4chan is image based, the site I'm imagining is not. 4chan doesn't have threaded comments, the site I'm imagining would. Most importantly, 4chan allows for anonymous posting that isn't tied to a central identity (there's nothing tying anonymous posts to tripcoded posts), the site I'm imagining would. There would be no throwaways, you would only be able to post anonymously on an account with a profile behind it. > Reddit is already sort of like this, honestly. That's why high karma accounts are often sold. As far as I know, there's no bias given to high karma accounts in terms of default comment sorting or post visibility. The only reason I can imagine that someone would purchase a high karma account is to use them to gain outsized influence by applying for mod positions on big subreddits. > [Vote biasing] will be slowly (or swiftly) shifted by brigading bots. If they can accurately upvote good content and accurately filter bad content, so what? They will never be able to get a bot into the good pool of known benevolent actors, and if they're always voting similarly to the known-good actors, then they're indistinguishable from good participants. Everything would be derived from being similar to the known-good actors, or similar to those that are most similar to known-good actors, and so on. > You'll still get echochambers for each viewpoint. There will just be fewer of them. Based on [the shifting of vote biasing by bots], the majority will choose the viewpoints of the echochamber. The pool of known-good (possibly paid) voters/editors should thwart this.