>There isn't a perfect algorithm to combat the concept of the hive-mind, but there are still simple options (e.g. preventing anonymous comments on articles that

>There isn't a perfect algorithm to combat the concept of the hive-mind, but there are still simple options (e.g. preventing anonymous comments on articles that may be politically charged) How does one follow from the other? Anonymous people are more likely to share opinions that don't conform to the opinions of the hive-mind in politically charged subjects because there are no repercussions to them doing so. Anonymity is a direct solution to combating hive-minds and upvoting/downvoting is something that further enables hive-mind-like behavior. Why are you saying that preventing anonymity helps with hive-minds? You're conflating two different issues: quality control and hive-minds. You can have high quality posts that don't challenge anyone's mindsets, this is high quality and high hive-mind. You can have low quality and low hive-mind. And ideally you want high quality and low hive-mind. Anonymity lowers your hive-mind but often lowers your quality. Upvoting/downvoting increases your quality but also increases your hive-mind.