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RE: Punishing Rabid Self-Upvoting of Comments
Why not simple change the mechanism of incentive so people are less likely to upvote their own posts?
Why not simple change the mechanism of incentive so people are less likely to upvote their own posts?
What specifically would you propose?
Us humans are pretty simple creatures - motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain.
I think this entire issue can be resolved by creating the right incentives. Incentives drive behavior. Ask any salesman (no offence to sales people) - They'll work the system to get the highest rewards.
It's human nature. So why try to get people to act in a right way - provide them the incentives to do so and they will naturally.
How to achieve this? Firstly, reduce the incentive for self-voting. If people don't get points for voting their own content - they likely wont. Improve incentives for those who interact with the platform more.
I realize this gets technical and just want to answer you at a high-level - which is simple work with human nature - not against it :)