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You're missing is the time factor. Someone with infinitely more time to post on Hackernews will have their opinions amplified over people who are more casually
by wvenable 4y ago
You're missing is the time factor. Someone with infinitely more time to post on Hackernews will have their opinions amplified over people who are more casually interacting with the site.
The probably with people is that if see the same opinion X number of times they tend to believe it. Nobody is immune to it.
- em-bee 4y agohackernews actually already supports rate-limiting people from posting to much. so it is possible to implement systems where individual voices don't get a chance to dominate. i think that would address this problem.
- wvenable 4y agoI don't have time to create hundreds of alt-accounts or run proxies through alternative servers but there are people who do. I used to run a forum and play this game of cat and mouse.