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by handsclean 1090 days ago
It’s hard to attribute Reddit’s rot to voting when it’s had so many years of administration alternating between absentee and inept, and when HN gets such dramatically different results. I generally agree that the trivialization of sentiment is probably a bad thing, but there’s also a lot that works here and one should be careful not to break. I’d certainly be curious to see how it plays out. I wonder if one couldn’t disable voting for only some threads…