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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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

Except it appears designed for that not actually detection of the bad users. And does nothing when the toxic users just say on their own instance or comm. (like goat, pugjeasus and with recent db0 votes the feddit.org admin)

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If "going against the hivemind" is insulting people (which is what I've seen most of the time with users with both warnings), then it works as intended.

Also, giving a lot of downvotes is usually a sign of toxicity, and that's only based on the user's actions, not the downvotes they receives.

And does nothing when the toxic users just say on their own instance or comm

As I said, it's not a perfect tool. To solve toxic users creating their own communities where they reign alone would require admins stepping in. And in the case you mention, when the person is an admin themselves, there isn't a lot you can imagine, no tool would be able to address that.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago

There has been many times on lemmy and reddit where that is not the case, just saying what people didn't like was enough. From games to politics people love to dogpile. Making a system that helps do that is asinine.

Blaze you do so much for the fediverse but defending this type of system is very disappointing to me.