On reddit, they have some provisions so you don't see the votes right away ( at least with the comments)
The thing I do fear is down vote organization. Like minded people get together and push their votes or down votes for their gain. If this has a bunch more people on it, it will be hard to regulate.
I think interactions in posts should mean something. Trending posts with 1 comment is a bit ridiculous. I think we need more dialogue and interaction in posts other than the upvote.
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I agree with your ideas and we should be having more often conversation reviewing ways to improve the experience of people here.
I see a lot of repeating posts that in the end don't add any value and are just there to have quantity in order to get their daily votes. This also includes the 'spam' of some apps that post in your name to promote their services using your rating, activities or information and sometimes offer upvotes to do that.
Yeah the trending does definitely need a rework.
Unfortunately hiding votes does not work on a blockchain, but there are a lot of other good things that come out of this instead. :)