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.
I do have the time and I do care that much. I joined this server on June 7 when it had fewer than 100 users. I am more invested in the success of this server than anyone.
I’m not writing bullshit, I’m being totally serious. I don’t want bots to influence the voting any more than you do. One problem is that many methods of keeping bots out also have the side effect of keeping some real users out. For instance we could keep out accounts newer than 7 days, and then you’d be upset about not being able to participate.
I made the judgment that manually verifying votes would be the best temporary solution for now.
How about you just spend a bit more time here and see how it goes? If you enjoy it, feel free to stay. If you don’t, you can leave. No need for the anger.
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On the contrary, I’m not misinterpreting anything.
So essentially you have no more points for me to address. Great
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The conversation was fine up to here. If you can’t keep it civil then don’t post.
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Do you understand the rules?
I don’t care about the conversation, I saw your report and investigated. If you don’t want moderator attention then don’t click the report button.
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He’s not my counterpart and this isn’t an argument or discussion. I’m giving you a warning that you’re breaking the rules.
You’re not trying to have a discussion you’re trying to pick a fight and it’s at the point where you’re resorting to personal attacks both in this thread and in your report. So either continue to have a conversation without name calling or stop talking.
Your report was inappropriate, and your comments that I’ve responded to are inappropriate. Just stop.
Actions speak louder than words.
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