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socsa@piefed.social 6 days agoPiefed literally already implemented voting agents and it worked fine until forum politics killed it.
Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy
socsa@piefed.social 6 days agoPiefed literally already implemented voting agents and it worked fine until forum politics killed it.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Ah, so what Rimu calls an alt/sockpuppet account that automatically votes on their behalf.
I haven’t seen the Matrix chat but having a dev look for feedback and then implement changes based on feedback received isn’t “forum politics” in my world.
Good luck with your fork!
piefed.social/post/956572
socsa@piefed.social 6 days ago
Yes that thread is quite literally just describing forum politics, based on a very small amount of feedback from a select group of individuals discussing the matter in back channels.
Simply put, admins were not satisfied just banning the agents for voting and the user for commenting. This is entirely a perception issue and caused no actual problems besides feels. This caused the implementation of trusted instances which was actually a flawed concept. Rather than iteration on the idea, the pressure from other admins caused it to be abandoned unceremoniously with almost zero input from users. I'm not sure how you can interpret this as anything other than forum politics.