aaaa , 1 year ago

I appreciate the illustration (and even warning) here. I predict things like this will just lead to more people having throwaway accounts. Now instead of just having throwaway accounts for posting shameful stories, you’ll also find people with their “commenting” accounts separate from their “voting” accounts.

The more I see kbin users calling people out for downvoting them, the faster I expect the votes to just become gamed instead of natural. Anything that’s used to draw attention to the way people vote will make this worse.

We’re in the early stages, but as soon as we start seeing communities that ban users based on their voting records, people will just find other ways to obscure things, which will make it even harder for instance admins to address massive misuse of the voting system.