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Downvoting gives more ways to manipulate a conversation and promote a narrative.
by mrhands556 5y ago
Downvoting gives more ways to manipulate a conversation and promote a narrative.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoBetter than an algorithm that prioritizes posts based on how much interaction they receive. The manipulation of a conversation can instead be a democratic process where each participant (even each lurker) gets to decide what comments should be seen first by each new participant. I'm actually really impressed by HN's distributed moderation, the fact that members with more reputation (higher score) get to flag and vouch comments lets HN dodge reddit's curse of having weird power-tripping volunteers with a monopoly on bans. Conversations need to be manipulated one way or another, I mean maybe 4chan gets by unmoderated, but don't they kick spammers too? So someone has power to shape the conversation, question is how the power is distributed.
- d23 5y agoAll voting is censorship. The delivery of every piece of content should be completely randomized regardless of source, quality, heinousness, coherence, or relevance. All knowledge and reason is fundamentally flawed and thus should never be presented. Words are meaningless. All is void.