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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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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

I said it above, but I'll rephrase:

a user giving way more downvotes than upvotes than is a sign of toxic behaviour (I insist on "giving", so the user is the only one doing that action, we are not talking about other people's actions)
every time I see a user with warnings, they have both, meaning that they give a lot of downvotes (see previous points), and indeed get downvoted back

The point you are making with people going against the hivemind is related to people receiving a lot of downvotes, but doesn't explain people giving a lot of downvotes.

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

I indeed do a lot, and I've seen toxic users going rampant at a few moments. The lemm.ee shutdown due to trolling and toxicity is a sign that we needed a way to identify bad faith trolls and toxic users better to avoid mods and admins burnout.

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

The point you are making with people going against the hivemind is related to people receiving a lot of downvotes, but doesn't explain people giving a lot of downvotes.

Because it's treated differently in piefed but still an example of how the software is designed to punish those who do not act the way the creator wants.

It just doesn't seem like a way to actually address bad faith trolls or bad actors just make it easier to purge. Especially with instances that love to keep those types around, see world and shit just works.