Comment on Update on the recent CSAM issues
odigo2020@lemmy.zip 1 year agoPersonally, I think that’s an absolutely fair barrier to place, and is very similar to the one I used when I moderated my town’s subreddit, which caught an incredible amount of bots and bad actors before they could cause problems. But I appreciate your desire to hold off on implementing something like that until it’s necessary.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not really a Fan of using score as a gatekeeping method due to the fact that it in a way discriminates against users who disagree with others (downvotes are typically awarded to people who have unpopular opinions) similar to Reddit Karma requirements, and even as it is, there’s nothing that stops people from gaining the system and up-voting their own posts from puppet accounts in other instances (or even from accounts on this instance). It could also lead to people being maliciously downvoted by others to try and block them from meeting requirements.
If downvotes were disabled and the amount required was higher I wouldn’t think it’s as bad since you can’t go down, only up, though it’s still not good due to the fact that it essentially encourages vote manipulation and Karma farming. There’s a reason Score isn’t shown by default, the Reddit way just doesn’t work on the Fediverse where vote manipulation can’t be adequately policed.
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yeah, that’s a valid concern and I’ll take that on board. Maybe the requirement should be that the score isn’t within a ± bracket to evidence engagement, and it’s only one of the measures that is checked (post count and account age being two other measures that come to mind) when deciding if someone is a genuine actor or not.
Thankfully it’s not something we need at the moment but always good to have a plan.