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Geniune online user sentiment has died out a long time ago. If you're still basing any opinion or decision on what other "people" voted or commented online, you're easy prey for the algorithmic manipulation machine.

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This is an along the same lines as the idea that every email should cost a penny. Like if every up vote or down vote cost a penny.

I don’t think it would fix things, except raise the bar for what is shilled and what isn’t.

I think that would only make it worse. Most genuine people won't care enough to spend money on this kind of service, while corpos would jump on it immediately and buy thousands of votes for a couple of dollars.

in a way, the death of genuine reviews online may be a great way to bring it back to real life at a more realistic scale

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