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    "It seems our current voting system is like democracy; it's not the best system we can create, but all others are worse." To me this sounds mostly very catchy. I am not at all sure whether this is true (at least it is not well founded and slightly fallacious). Democracy is not always the best system (it depends on where and when it is applied). The voting system has equally problems depending on the era and place. What we see now is that the system grows out of proportions and for most posts the voting becomes a faint sign. Most posts only get 0,1,or 2 votes. Most posts arent differentiated. Commented Nov 21, 2019 at 9:36
  • I have added an additional graph to the question. It shows that the voting system is doubtful as being similar to democracy in terms of 'all other systems are worse'. What the image shows is that the voting system is probably just as worse or even more worse (except that the voting system creates gamification, but in terms of the point 'good content rises to the top...incorrect content falls to the bottom' it does not do much good). Commented Nov 21, 2019 at 10:15
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    It's like a defunct democracy (It could be the least worse when it worked the way it was supposed to work). Commented Nov 21, 2019 at 10:17
  • @SextusEmpiricus, I am not sure my equating SE voting and democracy really is true. Systems are build to get a certain result. The wanted result from SE is different then from me; I want questions answered, SE wants more money, users and be more inclusive. I hope they don't exclude one an other. Commented Nov 21, 2019 at 10:22
  • (I consider it in this case as an analogy being equal with 'the least worse' and not with 'democracy' because voting here is indeed not democratic) Very often people come up with the "the-least-worse-argument" . However, this is a bit pooh-poohing away any criticism that is more like going into the direction that the democracy(/voting system) is defunct or not present and are about improving the democraticness(voting) of the system (you could say it is a bit fallacious like: A argues corruption is bad, then B says yeah but it's democracy, it's the least worse) Commented Nov 21, 2019 at 10:28