Technically, it’s an astrospam measure.
piefed.social keeps a hidden trust score that goes down when people do stuff the piefed dev personally doesn’t like. there was recently a bunch of drama about it
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 10 hours ago
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
No they use something else for that, ie limit what new accounts can do.
The credit score is just doing things the dev doesn’t like/shouldn’t be done
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Jesus fuck.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 hours ago
It’s literally just a number admins can use to sus out if a user might potentially be a toll. It’s basically reddit karma but hidden from everyone but admins.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Reddit Karma is not good, I don’t want a Karma system on the Fediverse. That was one of the worst things about Reddit. Karma is essentially ass-kissing points, you get them for kissing ass, and you loose them for making people butt-hurt.
I can’t support that, it creates nasty psychological patterns that make people prone to siding with popularity and not with what’s right.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 hours ago
You dont have a karma system on the fediverse, only admins can see it.
Individuals dont know what their score is, there is no benefit to them trying to farm it because they cant see or use it.
This is the most overblown criticism of piefed around.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Then make it a clear, public figure. Make it transparent.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 hours ago
Why? It’s an admin tool.
Users overall don’t want karma farming accounts.