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The old Slashdot moderation system had a variant of this. You could assigns comment score and a reason for that score. It worked pretty well until users inevitably learned how to abuse it.


I don't know the problems there, but would the following avoid the abuse?

Only accept pre-defined labels everyone agreed on + references to existing answers?

Alternatively only allow a refutation format which is simple to validate.

And make it clear that votes are only a show of sentiment since this is not a democracy we are talking about.


Abused in what way? That’s different from any other points moderation system




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