UnrequitedHope comments on Guidelines for Upvoting and Downvoting? - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Sable 06 May 2015 11:51AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 May 2015 11:05:03AM 0 points [-]

That sounds like how the system is meant to be used. One of the basic rules of trolling is that "Whatever can be used, can also be abused".

For example, guns can be used in self defense, and for "spraying graffiti" at the mall. Is the gun (that would be the voting system) to blame, or the person who pressed the trigger (the person making the vote?)

Don't get political - that was the best analogy I can come up with.