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RE: The Trending-Page: Yes I see it too, low paying posts with MEGA self-upvoted comments inside. Shameful!
Spot on !
Why do you not support flagging this behavior here, then ?
Do you really think the flagged posts were getting those inflated payouts because of good content ?
They are the result of collusion and that's pretty close to a self-vote in my book.
I don't support collusion and gaming the system if it can be proven. It can easily become something people do way too fast and that they become "trigger" happy. Once it is done it can also turn into a permanent flag against someone, so they essentially become dead on the platform, and they will become vocal about it and perhaps leave with a lot of words which anyone who potentially reads the platform reads.
So people that were colluding or doing something and are caught need some way to redeem themselves as well.
The collusion can be actually self-vote by other accounts owned by the same person. Which I actually described in a post I wrote inspired by this post.
I recommend we not jump quickly to flagging ever and instead use it as a last resort. It does too much damage to the perception of the platform and it has and does lead to flag wars which are very bad for the platform.
I want the platform to grow. I could care less about the opinion of people about what they DISLIKE. If I go to buy any product I don't really care how many people dislike something, I care how many people actually like it.
I do like the 5 stars, 5 eggs system, which works pretty well for expressing dislike, etc without harming the product, but that is not what we have here.
However, I wrote a post about this after commenting here, my post if you WANT to read it covers my views on these things (at the moment)