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21 Post author: NancyLebovitz 23 December 2015 06:29PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 06:50:11PM 3 points [-]

I would rather just make spiteful down-voting impossible

That would require presumably automatic distinguishing between "spiteful" and "non-spiteful" :-/

A very simple solution is to follow Reddit and block any kind of voting on old (="archived") content.

my impression is that highly specific rules like that are an invitation to gaming the rules.

LOL. Would you like to apply this generally, e.g. as in "The principle of Rule of Law is a bad idea because it's an invitation to gaming the laws. Much better to have a tyrant...err... benevolent philosopher-king decide matters because it's harder to game him".

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 23 December 2015 07:03:19PM 2 points [-]

"Spiteful" was vague. "Mass down-voting" (I assume it to be spiteful) would be better.

How fast does reddit archive content? Given my druthers, I'd permit upvoting on old content-- we don't seem to have a big problem with it being abused.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 07:10:03PM 0 points [-]

"Mass down-voting"

That's still not a technical definition.

I'd permit upvoting on old content

I don't like introducing asymmetries into voting. That "so what is your affirmative answer?" slope is quite slippery.

Comment author: philh 23 December 2015 09:06:10PM 1 point [-]

Reddit archives threads after six months. At that point, you can't comment or vote, but you can edit and delete your own comments.