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  • Kysol (edited 8 years ago)
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    The content is sorted by the hive-mind!

    If everyone was an individual, and the world was perfect this would work. The sad truth is that voting can be brigaded easily. Look at any form of poll on the internet these days and you will see that if say "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough" is winning the "Vote your favourite Baskin Robins flavour" poll, the Peppermint Twist groupies will post on their PEPPA4LYF forum that their flavour is losing and boom, 30,000 votes get cast. You see it all the time, gaming companies asking their fans to vote for them in some video game award polls.

    These polls would be more fair if you had to wait a year before you could vote, or you had to have been active for more than X amount of time, somewhat like /r/thebutton - If they hadn't imposed an account age limit on pressing, you would have had people spooling up fake accounts by the 1000's per second and all hell would have broken loose.

    We live in a time where right is wrong and wrong is wrong.