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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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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yes piefed is known to exact CCP-style hidden moderation.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

It's a shame honestly, I feel like Piefed without up/downvotes at all would work better. No algorithm, thanks.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 13 minutes ago

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)

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 13 hours ago

Piefed doesn't incorporate any of this into an algorithm.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 18 hours ago

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.