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oaky Link ParentI don't think I buy the conventional wisdom that a candidate like Schultz is a spoiler. It presupposes that there are people aware enough of national politics to know who he is and want to vote...I don't think I buy the conventional wisdom that a candidate like Schultz is a spoiler. It presupposes that there are people aware enough of national politics to know who he is and want to vote for him, but not aware of the meme that he's a "spoiler", particularly if they live in a battleground state.
While I agree with the popular sentiment that it is extremely unlikely he'll get a single electoral vote, that's not the only reason to vote for him (and a vote for him does not mean a vote for him would otherwise have gone to whomever the Democrat frontrunner ends up being.) In the end, lots of people don't particularly care for either major party or the narrative of being forced to pick the lesser evil from two duopolists; a vote for a high-profile third party is the most visible way of expressing that view and inching closer to some sort of reform that breaks up the hold the two major parties have on American politics.
In addition to moderation with labels, Slashdot also has (or had, I haven't been active there for years) so-called meta-moderation where each user had to verify the accuracy of others' modded labels in past conversations. I'm not sure what is done on the backend with this information, but I suspect that users who assign appropriate labels tend to get more opportunities to do so.
Without a budget for labeling, it will take a tremendous amount of collective self discipline to avoid labels just being super/down votes.