Vote manipulation is getting more common. Some recent examples:
While the accounts were banned, the malicious voting activity stuck around.
Should admins have the ability to discard votes, and if so, which admins? Should community mods have that ability? Can you think of any ways that tools like this could be abused?
Wouldn’t say running in circles as much as ignoring the issues
if a legit user gets flagged as toxic, there’s no other consequence besides the warning, that doesn’t prevent anything from being seen.
Yet
Technically, it’s an astrospam measure.
Anyone who can make it this deep in the thread. Or do you think this is a private conversation on a public forum?
Why would anyone want read your denial about astrospam mitigations you refuse to provide alternatives for?
Piefed is a tool anyone can use. If you feel mass downvoting with an account is something like social “credit” that piefeed nomenclatures as “attitude,” then I have no idea how users will use that credit, and what for. “Repudiation” is something all threadiverse software mitigates one way or another.
And I am being extremely generous, as it seems you don’t know anything about computer sciences.
“By their actions you shall recognize them” and all that.
If it’s upsetting to someone they’re either a Zionist or a fascist. This thread has brought a lot of those horrible people out of the woodwork.
In those cases, no one being upset would probably show nothing was achieved.