Are you saying that because they would get more upvotes, they could offset the downvotes they receive? Potentially, but this is where the second metric comes in (giving a lot of downvotes), and as we said, the two are almost always present at the same time.

Right, though it’s a mitigating factor. I guess there’s something I don’t know about piefed: Lemmy comments all have a default upvote from the user that makes it. But it can be revoked by the user. Does Piefed work the same way? My thought only applies if that’s the case.

giving a lot of downvotes is usually a sign of toxicity

Emphasis mine. When is it not a sign of toxicity? Rules are defined by their exceptions, so I am curious as to how this exception is navigated, if at all?

Essentially someone who posts with high frequency has a capacity to issue more downvotes without compromising this admittedly imperfect tool.

Now I was never really a reddit user, but the problematic karma farming of accounts associated with that place was directly linked to these kinds of tools and metrics, no?

I have felt there needed to be a specific type of vote available only to the original poster and to the users individual reply.

An up/downvote from the OP or the user I responded to I think should be differentiated from another user who isn’t either.

If the OP or commentator votes that should be noted alongside the X number of random votes. It isn’t an anonymous vote, but those votes would be public acknowledgements tied to the user making the public post/comment.

Forgetting all about Thirteen Monkeys.

I have been online since the 90s in mostly gaming spaces. Misogyny and racism feels like the default state.

Spaces that are able to rise out of that are exceptional.

I mean it’s such an incredibly unambiguous 9-0 on a legal basis and he still got three nonetheless.

Good ol Socko.

As well as one would expect.

The ones who come out of the woodwork when you agree with the Nuremburg Trial execution verdicts will write novels.

About half the American electorate already has. Judging from the last big American election most voters aren’t swayed into flipping levers ineffectually for a system of lashing people to tracks.

When local schools lack resources to staff classrooms, homeschooling is increasingly normalized.

Yes… Ha ha ha… YES!

Yes, it is a good thing. But the rat won’t drown itself, so it’s looking for any line to safety.

come @ me lemmy liberals

You know I think the only ones that will are the six or seven chronic users who peaked at using tankie as a pejorative, and half of them fucked off to piefed to insulate themselves from further interaction.

MTG represents the post-Epstein MAGA movement. All the fascist policy, none of the Epstein baggage. She is extremely valuable to the movement pivoting around the pedophilia.

Looks to me like that warehouse went up on its own.

You know, that’s probably for the best. Good on you. Forget I said anything.

They’re not thinking that far ahead and likely give zero shits either way.

I bet they chose to tell this guy they support Russia just to make arresting this guy more abusive.

Do you know what kiwi farms is?

One of the feddit instance admins has been involved with instance muckraking a bit for the last month or so over on sh.itjust.works, so there’s definitely some kind of back and forth going on here.