it's hard to quantify, but i've witnessed and defended against direct attacks of the typical kind that are pretty successful on reddit.. the structure here is just less useful to them.. discussion can carry on around their attempts to dominate a thread, and get the whole thing sort of flushed down a toilet of inane consensus.. the traffic is nowhere near as high, so it's hard to say how it will evolve..
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OpenStars@kbin.social 1 year agoHow is it less "susceptible" to brigading and trolling, or did you just mean that it tends to happen less here? If anything I think it's more susceptible overall, but then again the need is substantially less too.
theodewere@kbin.social 1 year ago
OpenStars@kbin.social 1 year ago
ithas reminded me that voting records here are public - so that actually would make this place less susceptible, I had just forgotten about that aspect.:-) But the lower volume, and more importantly the signal-to-noise ratio, probably does most of the heavy lifting:-).
theodewere@kbin.social 1 year ago
probably does most of the heavy lifting
i really don't think so
ithas@artemis.camp 1 year ago
One thing I've been told in the past is that with public voting records you at least get an idea of if brigading is happening, where it's coming from etc. Though maybe that's just a giant list of randomly generated usernames but if it's coming from a single instance there are at least actions to take from that.
OpenStars@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh right, I actually forgot all about that, yes indeed that would likely help. Certainly anything is circumventable but presenting that kind of a barrier would help discourage it. Thank you for gently setting me straight:-).