Comment on What is piefed?

• sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have no idea! I’m already hosting Lemmy so I don’t really see the point personally.
  Just thought I’d look it up for OP.

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• rimu@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, admins designate it.

  Most instances do not use this feature, afaik. piefed.social does but most of the others do not.

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  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the code there is a function that recognizes if the name of the community contains “meme” and does not add the upvote to the overall vote counter of the user

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    • rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wrote that code. It can be turned off or on by the instance admin. When an instance is created It's off by default.

      Originally, when I wrote the feature comparison page, it could not be turned off.

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      • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well since I have a chance to be seen from the developer of Piefed: thank you for your work. The more options we have, the better.

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• MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I seriously doubt it because I’m pretty sure the point is to remove the ability for bot accounts and spammers/etc from farming up some karma to appear more legit for their nefarious/spamming purposes.

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  • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think either way could possibly be exploited.

    And putting all that aside, I think all image-centric subs should probably be included. It’s just as easy to frame karma with cute cars and flowers as it is with memes.

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    • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Excluding OC communities, right? Like you’re not discounting people who put a lot of time and effort into their photography? Or even if they’re not great photographers sharing pictures of their plants and gardens and hobbies, and pets, should have the same allowances as text only posts

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      • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is a great comment; my initial reaction was “No because it would be easy to claim others OC was your own” but then the same could be said about text or link contributions.

        Then I thought “well maybe reputation should only be based on comments” but that could be unfair to those who primarily post vs comment.

        So now I don’t know what my position is. The best method is probably a blend of multiple strategies that can only be determined by engaging with the enemy.

        tl;dr: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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