The amount of influence your votes have doesn't decrease that much. You and I don't have a lot of influence yet, so when we are voting it really doesn't matter. We're doing it more for show than anything. Hopefully it won't confuse people so that they start voting less because it won't have a major impact on most voters, but it will do something to bots.
Still, I think that they should solve this issue with another method. Then again there are so many things that need fixing that they shouldn't overthink things to get them perfect. Hopefully this will have the intended effect and won't be as bad as some of us assume it might.
They need to reverse it. Keep it the standard voting system and offer a "power" voting option. That you can trade 8 votes for. I know that's essentially what they're doing but it'll feel less like you only have 5 votes.
Interesting idea. Unfortunately there are so many ideas floating around that good ideas will slip through the cracks. I don't envy the creators of the site. They have a difficult task made all the more difficult by stubborn and wrong-headed ideology.
The amount of influence your votes have doesn't decrease that much. You and I don't have a lot of influence yet, so when we are voting it really doesn't matter. We're doing it more for show than anything. Hopefully it won't confuse people so that they start voting less because it won't have a major impact on most voters, but it will do something to bots.
Still, I think that they should solve this issue with another method. Then again there are so many things that need fixing that they shouldn't overthink things to get them perfect. Hopefully this will have the intended effect and won't be as bad as some of us assume it might.
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They need to reverse it. Keep it the standard voting system and offer a "power" voting option. That you can trade 8 votes for. I know that's essentially what they're doing but it'll feel less like you only have 5 votes.
Interesting idea. Unfortunately there are so many ideas floating around that good ideas will slip through the cracks. I don't envy the creators of the site. They have a difficult task made all the more difficult by stubborn and wrong-headed ideology.
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