It 100% was! no one outside of the people who coded for piefed even knew this was a thing until the recent posts, if it is such an important part why isn’t it stated clearly and upfront!!!
It 100% was! no one outside of the people who coded for piefed even knew this was a thing until the recent posts, if it is such an important part why isn’t it stated clearly and upfront!!!
Skavau@piefed.social 2 days ago
Rimu literally wrote about it a long time ago.
Also, everyone can see the little exclamation points on accounts that are heavily downvoted from Piefed.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
This is like hiding changes in a 500 page TOS - is everyone who is impacted by this code going to know to look at this thread any time a new way of fucking with user reputation calcs is introduced?
Absolutely not.
Skavau@piefed.social 2 days ago
Every single instance admin will know about it too. The reputation/attitude system did not just get quietly added a week ago.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Is there any indication to users interacting with those instances that their content is being limited by metrics that may or may not be visible to them, and by rules that may or may not be documented anywhere but the piefed codebase?
These are wildly hostile features to anyone not using piefed, and it’s feeling a bit like that’s the point.