Never said I was against any of this in my post.
If your issue is "too many people are voting and this leads to less desirable outcomes because people aren't smart enough to vote for the right things" (paraphrasing), then yes, you are. The suggestions I outlined can help lead to maximal voter engagement. They raise turnout (and the quality of voter decisions). It fixes the problems you were complaining about. Are you therefore saying you
support these suggestions?
Again, never said anything about not allowing people to vote in my post. Please don't hurt yourself from leaping to so many conclusions.
Speaking of responding with insults. Bit unnecessary, don't you think? I don't think my post was at all unreasonable.
As for not allowing people to vote, this is implicit with "high turnout = good". Doubly so with "people can be dumb and vote against their own interests". If you're going to say something, don't immediately try and backtrack around the issue, even if you intentionally gave yourself semantic wiggle room to do so. It's not a good look. If you believe "mathematically half the population are below-average intelligence" and that "high turnout" is not necessarily "good", then at least one of your ideal scenarios involves people who are "dumb" not being allowed to vote, assuming the end goal is having better results from participating in democracy.
However, I didn't predict the next line, because it's not something I'd reasonably assume of anyone participating in a discussion about voting (considering you didn't lead with this, either):
Well I already don't vote (something I did say in my post) as I believe voting legitimizes the oppression of the state.
This explains a lot, actually. Would have been useful for you to say upfront. I don't agree in the slightest, but it at least explains why you'd wander into a thread about voter engagement and try to argue why high turnout is bad from an "intelligence" point of view. It also disproves your response where you claim you weren't against my suggestions, because my suggestions directly support said "oppression". So I'll be very interested in your answer to the question in my first paragraph at the top of this post.
Arguably, people who don't vote (in a system where voting impacts your quality of life, etc), are the ones acting against their own interests. I appreciate voting doesn't always materially map to some kind of result (I live in a constituency where my vote will literally never matter in terms of the local elections), but as a general
principle, voting in a democracy is important for said democracy to, well, function.
edited a bit for clarify around voter engagement - education doesn't necessarily map to "ooh i must vote", but in general I'd imagine it correlates with seeing the need to do so