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 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 39 minutes ago

While we are talking, example of a user with the two warnings: https://piefed.zip/u/grimreaper@sopuli.xyz

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

Because it’s treated differently in piefed but

Then Piefed is fine?

Especially with instances that love to keep those types around, see world and shit just works.

Instances who tolerate bad faith trolls or bad actors are going to do so with or without tools such as Piefed's.