this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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We're not just running polls and blindly following the results. I think the the goal of having a community discussion place is to help identify the people who are actively trying to participate in the process and then take their views into account in deciding the future of things.
Ultimately, like all instances this is functionally a dictatorship because @TheDude runs the server and has the ultimate say in everything. He's created an area where people can voice their opinions and his intentions appear to be to parse the discussion and make an informed decision based on the results.
I doubt he'd be fooled by some position suddenly having 2500 bot comments saying 'Nay'.
It's not an easy problem to solve and I agree that it has the potential to become a large problem going forward (LLMs make the bot problem even more difficult to deal with).
I've no idea how TheDude decides what opinion to follow but, so far, he's piloted the instance as well as anyone could expect so I'm willing to keep riding along to see where things go.
You specifically pulled up a [vote] post where that is the point. Try reading a [discussion] post.
There are votingg threads and discussion. lemmy doesn't have a flair system.