Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?
john_t@piefed.ee 5 weeks ago
No one is here for the internet points. Why worry about imaginary karma?
It’s literally how what you see is regulated. If a company X wanted to hide products from company Y, they could make bots to auto-downvote Y products and upvotes X products.
Granted, I feel like more commonly vote manipulation is done for geopolitical reasons rather than astroturfing
Because at least I’m piefed you get punished if downvoted too much
Yes piefed is known to exact CCP-style hidden moderation.
It’s a shame honestly, I feel like Piefed without up/downvotes at all would work better.
Piefed doesn’t incorporate any of this into an algorithm.
Eh, it still has some good things and in theory since this is FOSS someone could just, like, fork it and remove the whole shadow cabal moderation thingy.
https://piefed.blahaj.zone already has downvotes disabled, disabling the reputation warning features as well (you can’t get bad attitude if you can’t give downvotes)
Well, I’m here for the internet points. I’m a hoarder, so I like collecting stuff, internet points included.
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alonsohmtz@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Voting is an indicator of agreement/disagreement and will influence how people feel about a certain post.