I have fond memories of Slashdot’s mod system . Members randomly got 5 mod points to up or down vote sometime . Votes were categorized .And that was it . Then metamods would vote on the quality of the votes. I wrote in the past tense but I guess /dot is still around .
What distance are we talking about for the latency? When I look up the latency info for comparisons, no one ever posts where the end point is. Without that, there is no way to make a proper statement on what kind of latency any service has.