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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[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because it affects visibility of content.

Read OP's post, they're worrying about manipulation, not karma whoring or harassment.

Stuff like bots mass up or downvoting a post to promote or hide it.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Downvotes don't seem to be much of a factor in post visibility, at least in scaled mode?

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

They are in /hot/, which is likely to be vastly more common than scaled.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not if you sort be New.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 18 points 2 days ago

If we expect to be remotely large, sorting by new only is infeasible.