One question; what protections are in place to prevent some of the problems which plague user aggregated links (which are selected&#x2F;ranked according to votes)? Is there any anti-vote cheating mechanisms in place? Anti-Spam measures?<p>One of the biggest problems that digg (RIP) and reddit have been fighting is organized groups of people (and&#x2F;or their sockpuppets or network of bots) voting up their own links. Everything from SEO companies, marketing agencies to just plain old greedy spammers all attempt to game the system. There&#x27;s quite a monetary incentive to reach reddit&#x27;s front page and people have been abusing the system for over a half a decade now. What keeps those people in check, those who discover ways around or through their automated anti-vote cheating code (which is the majority), are the moderators. They&#x27;re the fail safe. Having the entire thing decentralized removes the mods from the equation and your fail-safe as well. That&#x27;s the problem; removing the mods may give you slightly less censorship, but you&#x27;re not accounting for all the good things that come with having mods.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to be cynical about this, but I do know <i>for a fact</i> this will never be more than a small experiment. I know this because if this ever got popular, I&#x27;d abuse the shit out of it myself and I have little to no incentive too. I can&#x27;t even begin to imagine the abuse level from people with an actual motive.