Pretty easy to buy bot votes these days. You have to start not looking at upvotes and downvotes as a way to measure whether or not a comment has validity, do your own research, make your own judgement, and don't blindly follow the top upvoted comments everyone.
The problem is that visibility is a function of score. Downvoting critical posts will allow to send them so far behind the front page that no-one will ever find them. We can't just shrug off the attack. Either we can make sure that mods are able to identify and ban shill accounts who participate in that kind of manipulation. Or we have to start looking for another platform better suited to prevent that kind of manipulation.
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Shook ago
Pretty easy to buy bot votes these days. You have to start not looking at upvotes and downvotes as a way to measure whether or not a comment has validity, do your own research, make your own judgement, and don't blindly follow the top upvoted comments everyone.
standalone ago
The problem is that visibility is a function of score. Downvoting critical posts will allow to send them so far behind the front page that no-one will ever find them. We can't just shrug off the attack. Either we can make sure that mods are able to identify and ban shill accounts who participate in that kind of manipulation. Or we have to start looking for another platform better suited to prevent that kind of manipulation.
ababcb ago
If something is getting downvoted we need to make multiple threads on the same subject.