Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?

• goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Piefed ties your voting habits and how often downvoted so it can flag you if either downvoted too much or down vote up and down sort of equally.

  Basically if someone goes against hive mind once or twice can cause getting removed or limited on their instance.

  join.piefed.social/…/piefed-features-for-growing-…

  Find people who have low karma

  When someone is consistently getting downvoted it’s likely they are a problem. PieFed provides a list of accounts with low karma, sorted by lowest first. Clicking on their user name takes you to their profile which shows all their posts and comments in one place. Every profile has “Ban” and “Ban + Purge” buttons that have instance-wide effects and are only visible to admins.

  The ‘Rep’ column is their reputation. As you can see, some people have been downvoted thousands of times. They’re not going to change their ways, are they?

  The ‘Reports’ column is how often they’ve been reported, IP shows their IP address and ‘Source’ shows which website linked to PieFed when they initially registered. If an unfriendly forum starts sending floods of toxic people to your instance, spotting them is easy. (In the image above all the accounts are from other instances so we don’t know their IP address or Source). Find people who downvote too much

  Once an account has made a few votes, an “attitude” is calculated each time they vote which is the percentage of up votes vs. down votes.

  People who downvote more than upvote tend to be the ones who get in fights a lot and say snarky, inflammatory and negative things. If you were at a dinner party, would you want them around? By reviewing the list of people with bad attitudes you can make decisions about who you want to be involved in our communities.

  All these accounts have been downvoting a lot (Attitude column) and receiving some downvotes (Rep column). Their profiles are worth a look and then making a decision about whether they’re bringing down the vibe or not.

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  • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Every single time I see someone with a low reputation warning, they are toxic users.

    It’s an imperfect tool, but it helps identify trolls and sea lions.

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  • arnitbier@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jesus Christ I hate that the internet is turning this space into your shitty fucking idea of a dinner party

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