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RE: Proposal to limit UPVOTE-GAMBLING: limit upvote power in thumbnail mode
What technical obstacles? A nearly trivial implementation is just to remove the up-vote links from the trending and feed pages . . . . If this were my website, I could do it in no time at all and these devs are far better than I am.
Yes, someone could put out a client that then allows this "evil" behavior -- but like all evil behavior, it is self-defeating to use such a client. I will admit that I used to be guilty of such behavior -- until I found that I had much better accuracy and got much better rewards when I didn't do it (admittedly, at the cost of a little more time -- but with the benefit of actually reading good content).
No I'm not talking about the button removal. I'm talking about the fact that the software for the site is already able to be downloaded and run locally. So if you run the software locally, you'd have no such restriction.
So one group suddenly doesn't have the capability, the other has. Admittedly the second group is lesser in numbers but the power-voters (whales and dolphins) even vote from ...cli or bots or have slider bars that ordinary voters don't have. So in effect this voting change would typically alter the behavior of small voters who don't matter much anyway.