Supposing that banning should even be a thing, why would voting be the one action you can take that you shouldn’t get banned for? If you comment in certain ways, you can be banned. If you post certain stories, you can be banned. You can be banned for trying to poke around in non-page urls (hacking), you can be banned for all sorts of stuff.
But if you go around downvoting stories that are relevant to that community, that should be protected? If you go around downvoting comments that are in line with that community, that should be protected?
Given that the only things anyone should probably downvote (spam, blatant abuse) are the very things mods exist to take care of, it’s not even clear that voting should be a thing at all.
What prevents someone from subscribing to a community whose topic/purpose they despise, merely so they can downvote everything in it? That is not a constructive use of voting, and many do that without resorting to bots (so successful anti-bot initiatives won’t do anything about it).
Voting doesn’t actually do anything that any sensible community should want.
Reddit seems to seel votes
They sell votes, explicitly now. You can pay to have ads appear on the front page, and those look like most any other post.
Furthermore, for select clients, they sell these same but not marked as ads.
I don’t know enough about the relevant law to understand whether there are any reporting requirements or not, but if there are they’re just skirting those.
I have no proof I can offer, but I am convinced that this is so.
Supposing that banning should even be a thing, why would voting be the one action you can take that you shouldn’t get banned for? If you comment in certain ways, you can be banned. If you post certain stories, you can be banned. You can be banned for trying to poke around in non-page urls (hacking), you can be banned for all sorts of stuff.
But if you go around downvoting stories that are relevant to that community, that should be protected? If you go around downvoting comments that are in line with that community, that should be protected?
Given that the only things anyone should probably downvote (spam, blatant abuse) are the very things mods exist to take care of, it’s not even clear that voting should be a thing at all.
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Cheers for fighting downvote bots … … but, but, but : typos !
a yswr ==>> a user
You van pay ==>> You can pay
only votes ==>> only (?true?) votes
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What prevents someone from subscribing to a community whose topic/purpose they despise, merely so they can downvote everything in it? That is not a constructive use of voting, and many do that without resorting to bots (so successful anti-bot initiatives won’t do anything about it).
Voting doesn’t actually do anything that any sensible community should want.
They sell votes, explicitly now. You can pay to have ads appear on the front page, and those look like most any other post.
Furthermore, for select clients, they sell these same but not marked as ads.
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Not disagreeing. Just pointing out.
I don’t know enough about the relevant law to understand whether there are any reporting requirements or not, but if there are they’re just skirting those.
I have no proof I can offer, but I am convinced that this is so.
“Valid votes” which only confirm your opinion? How do you know they are bots?
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