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by pavel_lishin 3312 days ago
> While the idea is pretty interesting to do that automatically, a better approach IMO is to have humans decide what to implement and what not because humans tend to be able to spot fake votes when there is no meaningful discussion why something should be changed.

Well, this is an experiment.

But if you think you have a better way of having a democratic piece of software, you're welcome to open a PR!

For instance, you could add a veto power - any account of a certain age can vote, but if enough accounts weighted socially react with, e.g., the "Hooray" emoticon, that counts as a veto, and the PR could be closed.

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I'm just gunna call this right now, and HN is probably going to downvote this but I only see this ending one way. Its going to end up being a bot that plays pokemon blue a la twitch plays pokemon.