Voting for forum posts

[tsbockman]

On Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 08:05:29 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> What I get from this is that voting can be also good or bad 
> depending on how we use it.

The problem is that it's extremely difficult to establish and 
enforce a healthy voting culture.

Many websites have "rules" like "Don't downvote just because you 
disagree," "Upvote content that contributes to the discussion," 
"No brigading," and "No ballot stuffing." But, the breaking of 
these rules still ends up dominating the results.

Individual misuse of the voting system is much harder to detect 
than abuse of the right to comment, and so bad actors tend to 
stick around. Eventually they take over entirely, as voting 
begins to influence meta discussions like this one.

> IMHO having an upvote/downvote scheme could be beneficial
> in some situations if it is implemented properly.

I think forum voting systems are beneficial in some 
circumstances, but not specifically for the big technical debates 
that people are suggesting we use them for.