Reply #19: I am pretty new here but I think this is pretty bad change because of trolls manipulating things [View All]

Very easy for low profile trolls to come in and get enough posts to do recs and unrecs and thus keep important subjects off the greatest page.

I think it would be better to have the votes for and against available (rather than have the unrecs negate the positive support.

I also think it might be useful for us all to know who unrecs on these things so that there is transparency.

On a given political issue it would be very easy for freepers or other corporofascist types to organize campaigns to keep important topincs off the greatest page.

As with my anti-nuclear power threads, there is a very well organized opposition to the antinuke movement which can probably keep any antinuke thread from ever getting to the greatest page again.

The same can be said of many important issues.

This makes it very easy for freepers and corporofascists to stealthily control what makes it to the greatest page and I think it is probably a very bad way to go.