I went to strong-upvote this post and then I was like ‘....hang on, wait’ :p
But yeah, this is a really good point. The strong-upvotes system requires a lot of trust that people aren’t just going to liberally strong-upvote anything they agree with, and since votes are anonymous we can’t tell if people are doing this.
fwiw there is some info on how people are supposed to use strong upvotes in the Forum norms guide, but I agree that many people won’t have read this, and it’s pretty subjective and fuzzy.
I think any issues with abuse of strong upvotes is tempered by the fact that someone has to spend a lot of time writing posts and getting upvotes from other forum members before they can have much influence with their votes, strong or otherwise. So in practice this is probably not a problem, because the trust is earned through months and years of writing the posts and comments and getting the votes that earn one a lot of karma.
I went to strong-upvote this post and then I was like ‘....hang on, wait’ :p
But yeah, this is a really good point. The strong-upvotes system requires a lot of trust that people aren’t just going to liberally strong-upvote anything they agree with, and since votes are anonymous we can’t tell if people are doing this.
fwiw there is some info on how people are supposed to use strong upvotes in the Forum norms guide, but I agree that many people won’t have read this, and it’s pretty subjective and fuzzy.
I think any issues with abuse of strong upvotes is tempered by the fact that someone has to spend a lot of time writing posts and getting upvotes from other forum members before they can have much influence with their votes, strong or otherwise. So in practice this is probably not a problem, because the trust is earned through months and years of writing the posts and comments and getting the votes that earn one a lot of karma.