Comment on Badge of Honor
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 hours agoI 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.
Comment on Badge of Honor
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 hours agoI 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.
Seleni@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 hours 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.
Seleni@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
No? Again, one account, one vote per comment. Each account votes once, on one person’s comment, isn’t going to trigger shit.
If anything, making a ton of puppet accounts and having only some vote in rotation to push your agenda would be the best way to get around it. So it encourages a problem while claiming to fix a problem that isn’t there.
Worse, it drives off the people who are on Lemmy a lot and make a lot of the content. That idiot admin just wants Lemmy to be silent, and he should just unplug his computer and go touch grass on a mountainside somewhere if he wants silence.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 hours ago
At the end of the day each account now has a limit that most humans will never notice, whereas before they could perform as many actions as they desired. It’s the difference between infinite and a very large but clearly limited number.
And if those automated systems hit their limit because the botter issued instructions for them to vote past their limit, then it becomes suspicious behavior which can be used to identify them. Especially true when the botter is part of network utilizing a shared pool of automated accounts.
To be clear, in this particular thread we’re discussing a PieFed feature, not Lemmy.
Now, I do agree it should be configurable and toggleable by the instance owners, but I see value in the feature.