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

• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s an interesting example of a user this is designed for/around.

  The general system of up/downvotes seems to be doing its job quite as intended: their views appear routinely unpopular and there’s a seemingly pretty strong community consensus around that.

  It looks like their threads have comments that solidly and clearly refute the garbage manosphere stuff. For some people it’s the opportunity to express a refutation of it publicly and directly. The public viewer gets to read those responses too.

  So with that example: what do the flags do that the content of their posts don’t already communicate?

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  • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So with that example: what do the flags do that the content of their posts don’t already communicate?

    It warns other users that this commenter may be a bad faith user / troll.

    Usually when I encounter a troll, I check their profile to see if they are indeed a troll. The warning saves some time on that, and is accurate the vast majority of the time.

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    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I guess I approach it inversely. I encounter what looks like a troll post and I’ll only check profiles when either I am interacting with them, or there’s such deep downvoting already I’m just doing a morbid dive into someone’s history.

      Most of the time though the user just has a deeply downvoted argument but otherwise normal and/or low engagement posts, so they wouldn’t be flagged by this.

      So I understand that it can save some time with some niche cases.

      But I can’t help but note that the system seems intentionally blind to targeted harassment, which can be a source, if not cause, of bad faith accounts. (And likely those need different approaches since those are also niche cases themselves.)

      And maybe it’s all just because of my instance’s Local feed, so that’s what I see as a prominent problem on Lemmy.

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      • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But I can’t help but note that the system seems intentionally blind to targeted harassment, which can be a source, if not cause, of bad faith accounts. (And likely those need different approaches since those are also niche cases themselves.)

        If you mean using puppet accounts to massively downvote someone, that’s also tracked, but with another tool

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