• DessalinesA
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    3 months ago

    About 1/4th of the downvotes on this post are from zero-content accounts. Likely some US democratic-party astroturfing going on like they did on reddit.

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      3 months ago

      And how may of the upvotes are from “zero-content accounts”?

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      Thank you for pointing out the astroturfing. Would it be possible to implement a filter which diminishes or ignores the vote count of astroturfing accounts?

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        There’s a few proposals in the github issues, such as making all votes transparent, and an option to block federated downvotes.