wosat

We need the karma-equivalent of PageRank. Every vote should not be treated the same, just as Google doesn't weight every link equally. The "one user one vote" system is the equivalent of pre-Google search engines that would rank pages by how many times they contained the search term. But it can't be as simple as "votes from higher-karma users are worth more" because the easiest way to build insane karma is to build a bot or spam low-effort replies to every rising post. Still, the system needs to be able to extract the wisdom of the crowd from the stupidity of the crowd, and the only way to do that is to apply a weighting gradient to users and their votes.

I remember when Reddit had a sizable Libertarian wing. Ron Paul, etc. Now, the same people who call everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders a "boot licker" go on to support every expansion of government power that is proposed and parrot the same opinions held by the largest corporations, media companies, and the government.