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> Those are based on the assumption that votes are equal

No, absolutely not. Voters can be categorized, clusterized and ranked, already as part of voting systems theory (one single example in the latter: election of electors), and more beyond it.

> No automated system is going to fix eternal September style problems

And why not. One example: views filtering contribution by score.

> people in those groups will still be engaging with/distracted by

Not necessarily, if they are given the option to avoid that.