floatingcloudsoverdawnskies

joined 2 years ago
[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's good he was banned, then

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What was he even posting?

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 6 points 2 years ago

You're lucky. They have been brigading the bigger Lemmy instances, downvoting anyone who opposes them. I saw them do it with my own eyes. I wish all of the major instances would band together and just defederate from them and Lemmygrad; it would stop them from causing the trouble they do.

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 1 points 2 years ago

Doesn't Mastodon?

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Who is he and why is he doing it? Does anyone know?

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 3 points 2 years ago

He's certainly dumb.

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

The other dumb fucks pushing the issue for whatever reason. I'm trying to figure out why it's so important for them for everyone else to submit to their opinion that the murderer was mentally ill. What difference would it even make? She'd be a threat to the community regardless and so her imprisonment or execution would be justified whether she was mentally ill or not, so what's the deal, I wonder?

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies -1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

And then we have to deal with the community collectively adopting shitty or evil ideas and enforcing them, shutting down victims or anyone who opposes them. So who checks the community? Who protects the individual?

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They shouldn't keep upvotes either honestly.

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The whole point is that people can downvote you for any stupid reason and doesn't accurately reflect why a post is being rejected by the community. People will do it simply because they want to silence you.

And it causes issues with brigading, botnets, etc. It's why hexbear and lemmygrad are being defederated -- and their members are able to get around it simply by making accounts on other servers and going right back to the brigading. Removing the voting option and giving admins tools to IP ban everyone from an instance upon defederation would go a long way toward fixing the problem. Just putting the hurdle of needing a VPN to regain access alone will deter a lot of idiots.

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 2 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Isn't that something that mods need to take care of though? Why should that burden be on the community members?

[–] floatingcloudsoverdawnskies 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

People can and will build botnets to artificially upvote their posts, and downvote opponents. It's too easily abused.

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