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.

  • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    They ain’t sowing dissension, dude.

    As for fraud voting, during the Mod Election, a few accounts were freshly created and voting for Seraph.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      He’s hypothesizing about bots manipulating our votes and questioning my integrity by saying I’m not going to verify the accounts, all before we have even made a single vote that I was responsible for.

      Additionally, his profile clearly demonstrates that he’s the type who likes to pick fights. He calls it “directness”. Directly to confrontation. Brilliant strategy.

      Whether it’s merely a character defect or an intentional decision, this individual is most certainly sowing dissension.

      We can investigate those allegations, PM me whichever accounts you found suspicious.