Voting Manipulation Concerns

The cluster centers on challenges in voting systems including gaming, rigging, unlimited votes, and manipulation, with discussions of solutions like quadratic voting, karma costs, and vote limits.

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revmoo Oct 18, 2017 View on HN

Why offer user-based voting if you're not going to honor it?

Over2Chars Jan 13, 2025 View on HN

How do you keep people from "gaming" your vote system?

neogodless May 5, 2021 View on HN

Does each user have unlimited votes to give to others? Could a small party spend all their time voting for each other and skew the intention of the site?

fredley Aug 9, 2017 View on HN

Depends on what your need is. If you need to alter votes, it's an extremely good system!

josscrowcroft Nov 25, 2012 View on HN

Looks beautiful but any problems with the votes being discounted? Will it still work in future or is it an exploit that would get closed?

wahnfrieden Feb 29, 2024 View on HN

It's possible but there is no voting solution to achieve it

biot May 29, 2011 View on HN

If voting abuse was a problem, how about implementing a Heisenberg's Voting Principle... for any given submission you can either click a link to see the votes OR participate in voting, but not both.

MontyCarloHall Aug 26, 2022 View on HN

Easy solution: make it so that voting costs karma, so individuals only have limited voting power.

dominostars Apr 12, 2011 View on HN

This might encourage people to vote only to see the vote total.

amichail Apr 30, 2007 View on HN

It can be implemented behind the scenes by counting certain votes but not others.