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Moderation tools for dealing with users that always vote down posts in a community? (leminal.space)
submitted 1 week ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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Does Lemmy have any moderation tools for dealing with users that always vote down posts because they disagree with a community?

For want of a hypothetical example, say someone created a community dedicated to pineapple on pizza. What's to stop people who strongly disagree with pineapple on pizza to subscribing, and voting down every post?

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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is the hexbear solution viable for the whole thing?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean allowlist federation? Depends on who you're federated with. If you're federated with any larger server it's still going to be an issue.

I added a site setting to reject federated votes that'll be in the next release.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think they meant disabling downvotes altogether.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah, yep that'd do it.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is only a partial solution imo, I had downvoted disabled on vegan theory club but people would still downvote the posts and it would federate to all the other servers except mine and I couldn't moderate it. We were targeted by shut ins and the threads looked bad on other instances and I couldn't see or ban the users lol. I guess rejecting federated votes would help but then there would be no federated upvotes either.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I split them out into 4 options: post, comment, upvote and downvotes

[–] okwithmydecay@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

You could make the community local only, but that would very much limit its reach.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yeah i meant just killing downvotes by default