Technological measures can keep it in check, but the only thing .win does right is showing both up and down votes and not collapsing downvoted comments, but collapsing will inevitably come as threads get too big to read and makes it too tempting.
Other things they can do:
limit number of subscribed forums to like 100 or whatever. You want to "belong" in a thousand forums? To bad, narrow it down to 100 or fuck off. This keeps people from subscribing to everything to bypass restrictions.
forum subscription takes a day to complete. Prevents people from signing up just to bypass restrictions.
if you're not a subscriber your comments take 30 minutes to post and you have to come back after 30 to finish posting them. This prevents drive-by sniping and front-page flash mobs.
default sort is downvotes are 1/4 upvote. This elevates thoughtfully-presented minority views. It would elevate hivemind as well, but to drown out dissent fanatics would have to upvote dozens of times for ever comment they wanted to suppress instead of just all downvoting the small amount of dissent.
limit up/down votes to like 5 per post per account. You don't have to show this limit to people, but the fanatics who vote hundreds of comments per post are never adding to thoughtful discussion. If the hivemind wants to waste their vote "me too"-ing their bs then dissent is more powerful.
These things are easy to do and I don't think you can even make a case against being effective. I think they haven't done things like this because they want a right-wing echo chamber like an anti-reddit - but it won't be, the hordes of unemployed liberals will take over eventually unless the system itself encourages sanity.
Nah there's background there.
Those weirdos are only half joking.
It also doesn't change the fact that, until recently, this was a right-wing bastion. The nazi sub got rolled, let's see if this one does.
I'm guessing no and this site slowly but surely goes the way of reddit.
Technological measures can keep it in check, but the only thing .win does right is showing both up and down votes and not collapsing downvoted comments, but collapsing will inevitably come as threads get too big to read and makes it too tempting.
Other things they can do:
limit number of subscribed forums to like 100 or whatever. You want to "belong" in a thousand forums? To bad, narrow it down to 100 or fuck off. This keeps people from subscribing to everything to bypass restrictions.
forum subscription takes a day to complete. Prevents people from signing up just to bypass restrictions.
if you're not a subscriber your comments take 30 minutes to post and you have to come back after 30 to finish posting them. This prevents drive-by sniping and front-page flash mobs.
default sort is downvotes are 1/4 upvote. This elevates thoughtfully-presented minority views. It would elevate hivemind as well, but to drown out dissent fanatics would have to upvote dozens of times for ever comment they wanted to suppress instead of just all downvoting the small amount of dissent.
limit up/down votes to like 5 per post per account. You don't have to show this limit to people, but the fanatics who vote hundreds of comments per post are never adding to thoughtful discussion. If the hivemind wants to waste their vote "me too"-ing their bs then dissent is more powerful.
These things are easy to do and I don't think you can even make a case against being effective. I think they haven't done things like this because they want a right-wing echo chamber like an anti-reddit - but it won't be, the hordes of unemployed liberals will take over eventually unless the system itself encourages sanity.