rating proposal - Everyone's Upvote Now
what if we let nonmembers upvote. its already anonymous and + only so what could go wrong
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rating proposal - Everyone's Upvote Now
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Summary:
what if we let nonmembers upvote
ehhhhhhhh people can fabricate fake upvotes… not sure I like this idea. we're supposed to be a semi-private community and I don't want randoms upvoting content. if you write content for the community, you can judge content for the community.
I've never thought about this before, but I'm hard-pressed to come up with any real downsides to this. I suppose it wouldn't do any harm to implement it.
Edit: Although, yes, there is one downside in fabricating upvotes, I suppose
by "fabricating" i guess that would mean sockpuppeting? yeah that does make sense especially bc we have anonymous voting
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I really don't see a downside to this? Like, some rando comes along and upvotes the articles they like. Especially since they have no real say in like, downvotes or deletions, this may just cause a few more upvotes for certain articles. Supporting proposal.
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Eh. There would be nothing stopping someone from creating 500 sock puppet accounts and shooting one of their scps into the stratosphere, vote wise. I think it's fine as is.
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I'm not feeling it. The Commune probably doesn't get a lot of natural traffic, so the author's ability/willingness to promote their work will probably play an outsized role in the rating. Someone who's well-connected in (for example) SCP Twitter, or is simply popular on the mainsite, would almost certainly get more votes than an obscure member could ever hope to get. The mainsite is a popularity contest to some extent, of course, but they have the membership volume to mostly drown that effect out; we, however, do not.
Another problem is that people like to post articles here that wouldn't pass muster in a popularity contest (i.e. the mainsite), but that they're still proud of. People would still be allowed to do this, of course, but having an article stuck at +1 stings a lot more when other articles are hitting +20 or +25 than when the competition is at +3 or +4. I worry that bumping up vote counts like this would incentivize people to pursue projects with more mainstream appeal, which (at risk of sounding dramatic) would undermine one of the Commune's greatest strengths.
I think the current system is fine.
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