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by bct 6854 days ago
Another alternative is a two-axis system. Up-down for agree-disagree, left-right for quality.
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Does anything like this exist that you are aware of?
I've never heard of anything like this, though I've thought of it quite a long while back for Reddit. The problem is that it won't solve anything. Most people will still downvote / leftvote things they don't agree with and upvote / rightvote things they do agree with. If the desire to silence a dissenting opinion could be controlled by the majority of people, free speech would not be such a rare thing, let alone need to be written into law.