<p>-1 The voting system doesn't need fixing by changing rep standards, the principle of voting by popularity is the problem.</p>
<p>The system doesn't measure quality directly and only superficially relates to how good a post is.</p>
<p>If lowering the required reputation is gonna do anything, then it is increasing the problems that the system already has.</p>
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<li>For example, hot network questions already get a lot of irregular votes from people that are not otherwise visiting the website and this will increase if more visitors can vote as well.</li>
<li>Such random hot posts that receive reputation that has little to do with a relative comparison of quality will increase if a pool of voters is added that visit the website in an irregular way. For example, some q&amp;a that is used or linked in a university lecture might suddenly get a lot of votes from students that read the material. In many other ways low reputation visitors may visit the website in a very irregular way. The reputation system will be greatly influenced by such flows of occasional visitors that will not vote other questions at the same time. This makes voting/reputation system even less of a <em>rating</em> system than it already is.</li>
<li>Additionally, the site might become more vulnerable to attacks with bots.</li>
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<p>If any changes should be made, then it is a removal of the system.</p>
