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How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? (piefed.ca)
submitted 13 hours ago by otter@piefed.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[–] REDACTED 7 points 11 hours ago

It's literally how what you see is regulated. If a company X wanted to hide products from company Y, they could make bots to auto-downvote Y products and upvotes X products.

Granted, I feel like more commonly vote manipulation is done for geopolitical reasons rather than astroturfing