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Vote manipulation is getting more common. Some recent examples:

While the accounts were banned, the malicious voting activity stuck around.

Should admins have the ability to discard votes, and if so, which admins? Should community mods have that ability? Can you think of any ways that tools like this could be abused?

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[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 30 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Because it affects visibility of content.

Read OP's post, they're worrying about manipulation, not karma whoring or harassment.

Stuff like bots mass up or downvoting a post to promote or hide it.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Downvotes don't seem to be much of a factor in post visibility, at least in scaled mode?

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago

They are in /hot/, which is likely to be vastly more common than scaled.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 20 points 17 hours ago

If we expect to be remotely large, sorting by new only is infeasible.