Gaming the system is, I think, more unlikely than it might seem. In my auditing leading up to making it live, the problem was the opposite of that. The average fascist account, if it's not banned outright, might have a "weight" of plus or minus single digits, whereas slrpnk admins might have a weight of several hundred. Some people were getting banned just because of a single downvote from one of the admins, applied to a reasonable comment, outweighed the whole community's consensus.
I am watching the results, to some extent, and depending on good people who do receive moderation saying something if it seems unreasonable. I think it is possible to create a network of artificial votes to game the system, but you have to do a lot. It's resistant to simply massively inserting fake votes from some random account to throw off the tally. You have to engineer artificial trust for yourself, and outweigh a community consensus of millions of votes. I think that, if it even takes off to the point that defeating it becomes a focal point, the level of voting that's required to game the system will be large enough to be obvious during an audit.
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