Paying smites with applauds won't work as it would break the value system. Right now it is pretty straight forward, 1 applaud "offsets" 1 smite and vis versa. Under the new system the value of a smite would be worthless rendering the applaud used worthless as applauding would still be "Free". It would devolve into a "Like" system where nearly nobody smites as it would render the hard to earn applauds worthless, so everyone just applauds or "likes". You can't have a smite pay for an applaud and vis versa as that creates a zero sum game favoring the incumbents who would hoard the now limited supply or applaud away all the smites.
The current system works because the user get to assign the value of a smite or applaud. No two users will agree what the value of a smite or an applaud maybe, but it can be universally agreed that 1 Applaud = 1 Smite. That value holds true whether the person gives a **** or not because others enforce that value.
I wouldn't worry about it too much TJ since it was at least over a year ago if not much longer. It would come up in one of those threads where you would do the whole you wouldn't steal a car false equivalency arguments and flash your corporate hardon for everybody to see no matter how inappropriate it might have been or how little sense it made. Since then you have had a sudden shift in opinion when you disappeared for a few weeks. The problem now is that you were only agreeing to whatever the mainstream opinion was without thought, hence your current title "I agree wholeheartedly with whatever the mainstream opinion is."
While you have soften, you still do appeal to authority and Just World arguments, you just hide them better. Just have a peek at the
luzsec thread. I have pretty much stayed out of that thread because 1. funhaus. 2. Catdrugs.
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