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  • If a website could be sure none of their users are malicious/bots and all of the users are perfectly rational and virtuous then public or private voting wouldn’t matter either way. That being nearly impossible, why not a reputation based system like Stack Exchange? Only when an account meets certain requirements they can vote.

    To boot, on the website tweakers.net one can actually vote -1, …, +3.

    • +3: “Spotlight comments are of such high quality and substantive value that they clearly stand out above the rest”
    • +2: “Informative and interesting comments that are a useful addition to the discussion in an on-topic thread or the information in the article”
    • +1: “Nice on-topic responses with knowledge that is common knowledge”
    • +0: “Comments that do not contain a relevant contribution, but are posted with good intentions”
    • -1: “Flamebaits, trolls, misplaced jokes, unnecessarily hurtful comments and other comments that violate our terms and conditions or house rules”

    [Posted this comment on GitHub.]


  • A hammer is a tool because no one but the hammer merchants gain financially if everyone were to buy a hammer. Crypto“currencies” are not purely tools but instead multi-level marketing pyramid Ponzi schemes because as soon as one has it they have everything to gain the more people buy it after them.

    “Thirdly, early adopters mine or buy large proportions of the total supply at negligible costs while late adopters mine or buy negligible proportions at large costs. It follows that holders immediately have every incentive to get as many people to buy after them. Like stocks? Like stocks, but without the dividends or anything tangible in the real world [10]. Congratulations, you got yourself a pyramid scheme †.”

    “† The stock market has largely become a pyramid/Ponzi scheme as well since most of the money does not exist and profits come from buyers or new entrants, i.e., the greater fool [16].” —Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely, https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html