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Everyone can see the count on Stack Overflow, but there are several mechanisms in place to protect that count from all sorts of abuse (bots, tactical voting, se
by daveoc64 5y ago
Everyone can see the count on Stack Overflow, but there are several mechanisms in place to protect that count from all sorts of abuse (bots, tactical voting, second accounts etc.).
The same is simply not true of YouTube or any other kind of social media upvote/downvote system - anyone can sign up for an account, and their votes immediately count and have equal weighting.
The same is not true of Stack Exchange or HN, where you have to put a lot of effort in with a community to be able to downvote something.
- Tijdreiziger 5y ago> The same is simply not true of YouTube or any other kind of social media upvote/downvote system - anyone can sign up for an account, and their votes immediately count and have equal weighting. I don't think this is true for YouTube - you need a Google account, and you can't create a Google account without verifying your phone number. (Unless you can create numerous accounts with one phone number? But that seems like an easy loophole to close.)
- mywittyname 5y agoI have multiple Google accounts on one phone number. I'd probably leave google if that limitation were put in place.
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoA limitation of, say, 10 accounts for one phone number doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
- ziml77 5y agoGoogle does let you create multiple accounts with a single phone number. There's legitimate reasons to have multiple email addresses. I have a handful of different ones that I use for different identities I have online.