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Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?

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Post by crescendo » Thu, Mar 27, 2008, 9:43 PM UTC

mattmaroon wrote: post #92

stcredzero wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone should implement Randall Munroe's proposal, so that repetitive and cliche phrases are automatically "demoted" -- which would mean that they appear on the bottom -- with the penalty getting exponentially worse, so it starts out as a mild chiding at first, then escalates. EDIT: Come to think of it, I knew this crazy guy about 10 years ago. He was so gung-ho about being "truly alive" that he tried his damnedest…

Someone should implement an algorithm that demotes anything by Randall Munroe.

Why the personal attack? I mean there's no reason for that.

Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?

#102

Post by stcredzero » Fri, Mar 28, 2008, 4:13 PM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #80

stcredzero wrote: post #79

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Just having a small amount of extra accounts can make a big difference if you can down-vote stories at the very beginning. This gives the unmolested stories a big head-start. I think that reddit implemented different behavior for the first hour of a story's life for this reason.

How could a small amount of extra accounts with only one down-vote per week make a big difference?

Only one down-vote a week? If you reduce the frequency like that, then that's just another way of weakening down-voting, which is what reddit seemingly did to their downvotes.

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