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This is not right way to decrease the population, there is a good chance that war will increase breeding rates and have the opposite effect of your stated desired outcome. Besides, we are already heading to a stable population.

See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And this discussion on it: https://kr5ddit.com/post/1747/...

Probably the only other factor to worry about would be global warming, and it seems that nuclear energy would be the solution to this.

> Unfortunately, proper implementation requires identity verification...

That might not necessarilly be true. I'm working on a site called kr5ddit, which doesn't require any verification, but has a moderation system that cannot be gamed by having multiple sock puppets.

You must earn your right to moderate, so no amount of sock puppets can give you any advantage.

> Pokey is a true work of genius that occupied a lot of my waiting to compile time along with k5[sic, probably kuro5hin] back in the good old days.

<-- kr5ddit.com

Linked site collects user data and is suspected to harbor malware.
Often causes shark attacks.
Site owner is vindictive and abusive.
Site prone to fail when accessed by more than five users simultaneously.
Approach with Caution

<-- kr5ddit.com

DSMB is for the nostalgics who would rather play MAME games like asteroid and pong than more modern systems... its more like a memorial to '97 kuro5hin.

Kr5ddit is for those who want to take K5's vision of rational anarchism to the next level and century.

https://kr5ddit.com/

I wrote a k5 screen scraper, and have 95% of k5 diaries, unfortunately I don't have any stories.
Date range for my archive is: 2001-1-4 to 2015-7-22
For a total of 161,942 diaries.

Here is a summary of what I have in my archive.

Here are some tables showing which kurons had the highest number of posts over the lifetime of k5.

I wrote a k5 screen scraper, and have 95% of k5 diaries, unfortunately I don't have any stories.
Date range for my archive is: 2001-1-4 to 2015-7-22
For a total of 161,942 diaries.

Here is a summary of what I have in my archive.

Here are some tables showing which kurons had the highest number of posts over the lifetime of k5.

I seriously recommend you check us out... I have put the last 4 months of my time into this project... I have a background in software engineering, and have a pretty good grasp on the fundamentals of micro-economics.

I have tried to apply principals from micro-economics to the site... Realising that posting and moderation are both really externalities... meaning that they suffer from tragedy of the commons type problems... and the solutions to externalities is (pigovian) taxes and subsidies... So, actually, I subsidise (by generating kr5dditz) moderation, splitting the rewards with the moderated content item creator, and the moderator.

I also identified that the problem with sock puppets leads to what I call the sock puppet limit... If user's can game the system by using sock puppets, then the system will generate users who game the system with sock puppets... so the sock puppet limit says that a user cannot gain more rewards by using sock puppets than they can their own account... which leads to the unintuitive result that users MUST be able to moderate their own content up AND gain ALL the rewards they would be due from being moderated up... Not something I've seen anywhere else.

On the other hand... a bad user with many kr5dditz modding themselves up could overtake the site! So, this leads to the downvote limit... which says that a user with a small amount of kr5dditz must eventually be able to suppress a user with many kr5dditz... or, in other words... downvoting must have a much stronger effect than upvoting!

This could lead to people downvoting everyone else to gain control of the site... except that the downvoting would have to be targeted at the right users... So, by not revealing user's kr5dditz balance, such a user does not know where to aim their limited moderation points at... but many users with a few kr5dditz would quickly identify a problematic poster with many kr5dditz, so it should have the desired effect.

I have many more ideas, and I'm getting around to implementing them and working out the fine details and maths involved... but I think it's on the right track.

The major problem with kr5ddit, as far as you are concerned, is that it is a very new site, far from complete, and with only a handful of users... so, it's hard at this stage to judge actually how correct my ideas are in practice... and obviously I'm very biased.

Still... I highly recommend you join us, register, and make a post... you might get some unique ideas... and you might have some ideas for me.

Our tagline is Free Speech as in Money... and we treat kr5dditz as money (literally being able to buy and sell them for bitcoin with other users on our exchange), but where we apply micro-economic principals that 'fix' the problems with markets to make them more like free markets, in ways that are generally recognized by economists as solutions to market failures.

My hope is that by doing this we can avoid having special classes of admin users to enforce site policy, and where user's self interest (ie, their utility, which kr5dditz are a proxy for) is aligned with the site as a whole.

At kr5ddit.com.

Instead of one user one vote, we have one kr5ddit, one vote.

We use kr5dditz, which are like karma, to determine how much you can moderate. You earn kr5dditz by moderating and and by being moderated. You can also buy and sell kr5dditz on our exchange for bitcoin.

I believe that this system should be robust in the face of sock puppets and bad actors... but time will tell.

Anyway, feel free to pop over and register, and talk with me about how it works. The site is under development, so lots of stuff is still very rough, and it is missing features I still plan to add, etc. Also, I've limited new user signup to about one every two hours or something... so, if you get rejected because of too many new users, please try again in a few hours.

At kr5ddit.com.

Instead of one user one vote, we have one kr5ddit, one vote.

We use kr5dditz, which are like karma, to determine how much you can moderate. You earn kr5dditz by moderating and and by being moderated. You can also buy and sell kr5dditz on our exchange for bitcoin.

I believe that this system should be robust in the face of sock puppets and bad actors... but time will tell.

Anyway, feel free to pop over and register, and talk with me about how it works. The site is under development, so lots of stuff is still very rough, and it is missing features I still plan to add, etc. Also, I've limited new user signup to about one every two hours or something... so, if you get rejected because of too many new users, please try again in a few hours.

Yeah... but (according to TFA) this affects much more than just download buttons that aren't.

This would basically make it illegal for advertisers to use kr5ddit to promote their product in the way that kr5ddit was designed to be used.

It seems to me that it would also make these comments themselves illegal too, in as much as they can be seen as advertising for kr5ddit.

Seems to go against free speech rights.

kr5ddit.com (still under development), where advertisers can buy moderation power directly from users so they can promote their stories to the top of the front page.

What problem are the FTC trying to fix here? Nobody is forced to read articles or visit any website... If user's don't find native adverts interesting, they will shy away from the websites that do that. Why do we need regulation here when the free market can sort this problem out? Making false claims about your product is already illegal, no?