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How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? (piefed.ca)
submitted 1 day ago by otter@piefed.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] lath@piefed.social 4 points 21 hours ago

Gog disabled down votes on its forum and now there's a bot up voting every reply in derailed threads. Mass up voting can also be a problem in creative hands.