Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.
socsa@piefed.social 7 hours agoI still want a placebo downvote button but I don't want it to do anything. Othet than that, I agree - public votes are cancer and 90% of the cancer involves down votes. It's a shame piefed caved to forum politics on this issue.
goat@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I doubt the devs will ever listen though, they’re too busy ranting about the validity of RT News as a reputable source. Maybe Piefed devs will?
socsa@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Piefed's original surge in popularity was arguably due to the main dev quickly implementing a voting agent function for pseudonymous voting. It wasn't perfect but it worked quite well until a bunch of other admins got butthurt about it and basically convinced rimu to abandon the idea in some discord back channels.
I have been vocal about my opinion that this was a mistake, and that public voting is the number one biggest issue with the fediverse at the moment (besides tankies, but that's a problem which will wither away with more users). Nothing good can come out of public voting though. People have this idea that it's some panacea for vote manipulation, but there are way better ways to handle that than IMO
Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Piefed’s urge came from crossposts comments consolidation, keyword filters, posts flairs, community migration and lemm.ee shutdown
The private voting was marginal
Skavau@piefed.social 3 hours ago
No, the original surge in popularity was a combination of its features and collapse of lemm.ee. I don't think the downvoting policy had much to do with it.
goat@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I regularly get vote manipulation in my community and on my account. What are some ways to better handle that?