It has its place as a deterrent to low effort spam, encouraging original content, and discouraging repetitive content.
There is little persecution of speech in the hive, but there are people doing it.
We should downvote them.
That is the design of the game.
It has its place as a deterrent to low effort spam, encouraging original content, and discouraging repetitive content.
There is little persecution of speech in the hive, but there are people doing it.
We should downvote them.
That is the design of the game.
But it can also be used arbitrary.
Only so long as the community tolerates those doing it that way.
Touché