You can rate it, but the score is not taken into account. We …

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Comment on Sankaku Complex Comment Rating by Artefact:

You can rate it, but the score is not taken into account.

We made the system, we made the rules. The rules are that contributors are immune to voting.

This is not a democratic government, it is a comment rating system designed to surface and encourage good comments, and sink bad ones. The same logic you are applying would suggest we are acting unfairly by not allowing users to decide what goes on the front page, or by deciding to remove certain kinds of comment as unacceptable.

Artefact made other comments on this post:

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  I read Slashdot for ten years, and only for the comments, and the highest rated ones at that. If you think I have any sympathy for users who can no longer get away with posting the equivalent of a goatse.cx link, you are very mistaken.

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  Indifference is also a rating.

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  Clear your cookies.

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  We can fix this.

• Sankaku Complex Comment Rating:
  

  Looking at later posts it is plain that anons are getting voted up to +1 quite easily so I think there is no issue.

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