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What are the pragmatic alternatives to upvote, downvote or flag ?

• VoodooJuJu 4y ago
  A normal, linear conversation. Like traditional forums.
• hayst4ck 4y ago
  Tagging, upvoting and downvoting users. Vetted power users. Voted on tags. Credentials. Payment for visibility. Chronological threading. AI based moderation. I think that twitter left a large opening for authority based conversation. Twitter was centered around people and what they said while other forums are generally topic centered. You could imagine hacker news with an idea of "following" and then a news page that consists first of the people you followed. I think that the next community that is able to promote authoritative speakers and make invisible the uneducated or low status users will be the next one to be big. Upvoting/Downvoting makes a community the average of their users. Upvoting and downvoting has no answer for eternal september. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September I think there are probably ways of manipulating visibility that can out perform average.