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How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? (piefed.ca)
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Vote manipulation is getting more common. Some recent examples:

While the accounts were banned, the malicious voting activity stuck around.

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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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I have felt there needed to be a specific type of vote available only to the original poster and to the users individual reply.

An up/downvote from the OP or the user I responded to I think should be differentiated from another user who isn't either.

If the OP or commentator votes that should be noted alongside the X number of random votes. It isn't an anonymous vote, but those votes would be public acknowledgements tied to the user making the public post/comment.