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I don't find your argument compelling at all. Just like democracy, we don't force people to vote. The results are indicative of the will of the people who care

I don't find your argument compelling at all. Just like democracy, we don't force people to vote. The results are indicative of the will of the people who care enough about the nation or subreddit to vote. If the standard were that at least half of the entire population had to vote in the same direction for anything to change, nothing would ever change. "Only" 81 million people voted for Biden, out of a total population of 332M adults. That's only 24%. Are you really arguing that Biden should not have been elected? Of course not.

haunter 3y ago
>I don't find your argument compelling at all. Just like democracy, we don't force people to vote. I mean I live in a country where voting is compulsory and there is nothing wrong with that. Better than the 1% deciding (and a lot of countries have a threshold to make votes valid) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting
- Gareth321 3y ago
  How would this work on Reddit, exactly?
  - haunter 3y ago
    If you are subbed to a sub make the vote forced when you visit the sub? Not just a pinned post with a link burried somewhere.
    - xp84 3y ago
      OK but i am 100% positive at least half, speaking super conservatively, of those 5 million, have come and gone years ago. 5 million subscribers does not mean that 5 million people have even visited Reddit in the last 10 years.
    - apocalyptic0n3 3y ago
      You're ignoring that the vast majority of /r/minecraft's 5 million subscribers are not active daily. Over the last six months, they've received roughly 2,500 comments per day and around 600-700 posts per day. Even if all of those were unique users, that's still just a fraction of the people who voted to close which is just a fraction of the total subscriber count. Anecdotally, I have 3 accounts subscribed to that sub and I've made just one comment there in the last 3 months. I open the actual sub maybe once a week and that is generally through Relay, a third party app. There are likely millions of subscribers who have not visited that sub in the last year.

haunter 3y ago

>I don't find your argument compelling at all. Just like democracy, we don't force people to vote. I mean I live in a country where voting is compulsory and there is nothing wrong with that. Better than the 1% deciding (and a lot of countries have a threshold to make votes valid) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting

Gareth321 3y ago
How would this work on Reddit, exactly?
- haunter 3y ago
  If you are subbed to a sub make the vote forced when you visit the sub? Not just a pinned post with a link burried somewhere.
  - xp84 3y ago
    OK but i am 100% positive at least half, speaking super conservatively, of those 5 million, have come and gone years ago. 5 million subscribers does not mean that 5 million people have even visited Reddit in the last 10 years.
  - apocalyptic0n3 3y ago
    You're ignoring that the vast majority of /r/minecraft's 5 million subscribers are not active daily. Over the last six months, they've received roughly 2,500 comments per day and around 600-700 posts per day. Even if all of those were unique users, that's still just a fraction of the people who voted to close which is just a fraction of the total subscriber count. Anecdotally, I have 3 accounts subscribed to that sub and I've made just one comment there in the last 3 months. I open the actual sub maybe once a week and that is generally through Relay, a third party app. There are likely millions of subscribers who have not visited that sub in the last year.