Everyone I have something very important to say about The Agora.
The Problem
Let me be super clear here to something people don’t seem to understand about lemmy and the fediverse. Votes mean absolutely nothing. No less than nothing.
In the fediverse, anyone can open a instance, create as many users as they want and one person can easily vote 10,000 times. I’m serious. This is not hard to do.
Voting at best is a guide to what is entertaining.
As soon as you allow a incentive the vast majority of votes will be fake. They might already be mostly fake.
If you try to make any decision using votes as a guide someone WILL manipulate votes to control YOU.
one solution (think of others too!)
A counsel of trusted users.
The admin, top mods may set up a group to decide on who to ban and what instances to defederate from. You will not get it right 100% of the time but you also won’t be controlled by one guy in his basement, running 4 instances and 1,000 alts.
Now i’m gonna go back to shit posting.
He can question your integrity just fine.
Sure he can. Given that I was elected moderator less than a week ago, questioning my integrity is practically the definition of sowing dissension.
It’s quite difficult for me to assess whether users are good people who are confused, trolls from the fediverse, or worse, infiltrators from reddit.
Alternatively, there are some people who are just lame.
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Don’t do this here.
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Don’t do this here because it is the rules. I’m not part of your argument but you are breaking the rules.
It doesn’t matter what they are so long as they are following the rules.
Of course it matters. Having trolls on our server is bad for everyone…
Yeah but they can still question you.
Ok friend