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RE: @snowflake's really interesting proposal - Turn whales into moderators and give dolphins all the voting power (TLDR Version)
The main idea behind the moderators is that as the primary stakeholders, they would have the ultimate say on the rewards. [Edit] Whales can already do this today, the main difference is that they would no longer be able to have as big of a postive influence on handing out rewards. (More power would be given to the rest of the community.)
there are three possibilities:
- The downvoting stigma would remain in place -- in which case, whales would be hesitant to downvote self-voting sock pupperty which at least some people would attempt to use to maniplulate the reward pool.
- The downvoting stigma would not remain in place, in which case whales would be able to use their downvotes the same way they now use their upvotes, but at inverse magnitude. Disporportionate influence is disporportionate influence. Whales will be able to exert it to determine the distribution of rewards voting up, down or side to side.
3.A hybrid outcome -- good whales will exercise restraint in using their downvotes, and only be involved to a limited extent. Bad whales will take advantage of the system to their financial b enefit.
None of these possible outcomes is positive
I replied to the sock-puppet abuse part in the other comment.
Regarding the downvotes, yes - there always will be a stigma associated with this.
There are really two separate issues:
The proposed solution does not address the second issue. It arguably will make it worse, since there probably will be more downvoting. I guess whether or not this gets significantly worse depends on how much perceived abuse there is, and how actively the moderators are dealing with it.
I proposed that downvotes are called moderator vote because that's essentially what they are.
All of these moderator votes would be hidden from the interface, the average user would have no idea what's going on behind the scene.