Comment on Badge of Honor

• Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Right, and like he points out, as a frequent poster he often engages low-key with the people who comment on his posts with upvotes. So this really made it hard to engage for him.

  Regardless it’s a shit decision by the admin. Everyone on Lemmy gets one upvote/downvote per post they interact with. It’s not as if you can upvote or downvote a post multiple times (unless you go though multiple accounts, which that stupid rule wouldn’t fix anyways), so who cares if some people are upvoting or downvote voting more than others? That just means they’re on Lemmy more, which is fine.

  So it’s a shit rule for something that isn’t a problem, and doesn’t address a possible adjacent problem (making lots of puppet accounts to push personal agendas) that could actually be an issue. That admin is just an ass. I don’t blame Pug for leaving.

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I can see it being useful if, for example, a group of machines downvoted enough to be a major influence but not enough to trigger bot detection algorithms.

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    • Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      But again, that’s a group. It doesn’t trigger over an entire instance, it triggers only on individual accounts. So it would do absolutely nothing against an issue like that, as I pointed out.

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      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        It will trigger each individual account and therefor the entire group. There is an easy workaround if they used more accounts but I’m assuming they already used the maximum number of accounts they could get away with if they were botting.

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