[deleted] wrote on January 5, 2019 at 2:36 PM

[deleted] wrote on January 5, 2019 at 4:17 PM

celebratedrecluse wrote on January 5, 2019 at 11:22 PM

yeah, democracy has its drawbacks, and as (mostly) anarchists I'm glad we can have critiques of specific implementations of democracy like the upboat system

[deleted] wrote on January 6, 2019 at 2:24 AM (edited on January 6, 2019 at 2:25 AM)

Fossidarity wrote on January 6, 2019 at 10:02 AM

Actually votes do influence important site decisions, first of all they decide the order of comments and secondly they influence people their perception of the actual comment themselves. Many times I noticed how I first looked at the vote count before reading the actual comment. That's why I'm using a theme without vote counts now.

Snowy OP wrote on January 6, 2019 at 5:20 AM

If you selling a shitty product, you can buy countless upvotes to let anyone who believes in this system. The problem is people are so easy to trust a system such easy to buy.