Until capitalism gets so large and unregulated that they can fund and control the government, which is what led to many of those “winner” picks that you describe.

It gets messed up both ways. We have many industries that are degrading because they’ve reached the limits of what they can innovate and instead are trying to find corners they can cut anywhere they can, while having the clout to get away with it.

Almost like glorification of any economic system is bad, rather than using them for their actual purposes.

People keep trying to use these systems forgetting human greed exists and will continue to exist

Technology is a history of users using things in ways the developer didn’t consider. Honestly if it’s something that isn’t of value to the site, I’d imagine it should be on a report button, not a downvote button.

But you just can’t convince end-users to do things the way you want. Either the system let’s them do it or it doesn’t. And half the time if the system lets them do it, they’ll do it even if it sets fire to the system.

I don’t think it’s of any value to try to change user’s choice of using the system, but rather embrace it and find ways to both better enable the system to use it (and perhaps curb some things you don’t like about it) and then figure out what went wrong with the original intent and try to reimplement that.