I am not totally in favor of this exact idea, but it seems worth thinking further about.

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    5 years ago

    i think this has been done before with freenets WOT (web of trust) it is defiantly a bad idea ive seen people get down voted for no reason and if you dont know what freenet is heres a link to it https://freenetproject.org/ i dont recommend you use it is very old and nasty and the develpers are total grammar nazis they will piss on you hard if you miss a single period and i mean pretty hostel about it to

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      5 years ago

      Sure posts gets down-voted for all sorts of things, but in aggregate they do describe the general majority sentiment of the users of one instance. If you dislike that sentiment, you are probably better off moving to a different server. But for those that stay it can be a useful metric to grade content from other servers.