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How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? (piefed.ca)
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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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[โ€“] witty_username@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suppose that would address only a part of the issue and there are other, less intrusive ways to mitigate the effects of malicious early down voting. For instance, early down votes could be weighed less.

[โ€“] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Or disabled until a certain number of upvotes are reached. It could potentially be disabled again of upvotes falls down under the threshold again. Or just have them time gated.