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 1 day 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 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

If the part after the but is ignored sure. But that part is also the issue so 🤷.

The point is the tools of piefed will amply the bad actors by allowing them to do the worst parts of reddit in the fediverse.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

Piefed system doesn't punish those who do not act "the way the creator wants".

Downvotes given are only actions from the user, no interaction from the Piefed dev.

Downvotes received is feedback from other users, no interaction from the Piefed dev either.

allowing them to do the worst parts of reddit in the fediverse.

Trolls are already around, as you pointed out in another comment. I would rather have a tool that works 80% of the time to detect trolls than no tools at all.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago

And here's an example of a bigger troll who it surprise surprise doesn't get flagged https://feddit.online/u/FiniteBanjo