I'm actually looking for an alternative to Reddit-like communities. I understand that upvotes and downvotes encourage good content <i>theoretically</i>. But that is only if the guidelines of voting are followed.<p>The guidelines seem to only be followed when a subreddit community is below a certain amount of participants. When a subreddit gets larger and more popular, the voting system creates a predictable, boring, and fascist echo chamber.<p>When I think about it, the voting on content (the threads) is a very different thing than the voting on the comments inside the threads. Most of the silencing of dissenters and upvoting of the like-minded happen in the comments sections. The voting on the content is a bit less biased, because usually things get downvoted only if they're lame or don't belong in the subreddit.<p>Any thoughts on how to solve the fascism problem while also encouraging good behavior and good content?