daniskarma

I think you are replying to another person.

I don't remember writing at any point that downvotes are private. I read again my comments just in case, I didn't. So I don't know what's going on here.

Do you respect the truth?

Or you think that lying is justified when defending a cause you believe worth?

It's not about who have the power. There are still mods on piefed with all the same power as lemmy mods.

But with the downvoting penalty people get an opportunity to banish people they do not agree with to the shadow realm in a way that's not possible in Lemmy. It's not the power of the people it's the power of a furious mob against anyone out of the mob.

You say "hideous user" I say any user who disagrees on the slightest with the mob ideas. And as the echo chamber closes smaller and smaller divergences will get punished until people will literally just be an echo of the allowed discourse.

I do think those piefed feature are a great mistake. People still have all the power via blocking users or instances here. But the "extra power" to the people is not really that, is just a net of authoritarianism in disguise. Heavy punishments to anyone disagreeing with authority, it doesn't matter that much if authority comes from a King, an aristocracy or a Soviet (assembly of people) it's still authoritarianism. And that's what I think will happen with any piefed instance that enables these features.

We all know that no only "hideous users" get downvoted, and that "hideous users" not always get downvoted. We all know that even the platform says to not use the downvote as a "I disagree button" people use it for this.

I'm more on the opposite side of the spectrum on this matter. And more and more I think it's better to completely get rid of the downvote button. If you really don't like something block it for you, there's no need for people to have tools that greatly affect other people. For instance if you downvoted some comment of a third user and that comment gets hidden. I may like that comment but now I don't see it because you were given a tool that gives you power over me. A tool like that is great for majorities to oppress minorities. As part of several minorities I've always been wary of those.

Voting patters. screw up relations between votes and comments. Buch of votes coming in at particular points in time. Comments that were being upvoted for hours suddenly getting 30 downvotes at once. It's pretty obvious.

I've been on the lookout as it's not the first time this happen with anti-AI gang. I have been suspicious about bot usage by some user on this topics for some time. So I've been comparing post where people talk about AI and other posts and the voting patterns are all different.

This could as well be just old classic brigading. But with brigading you usually get more one line comments, when it's just the votes it's usually bots.

You made me remember about this couple I know. He was going on down there, apparently good enough for her to suddenly close her legs hard enough catching his ear piercing in a bad way and ripping it out. Granting an ER visit.

Physically. Good apps and lack of ads.

Spiritually. A sense of freedom.

That movie shown me that I might have a post-apocalyptic job after all. All these years binge watching will have a purpose.

You overestimate how long the power grid can work without human interaction.

Didn't piefed came with built-in echo chamber features, hiding downvoted comments by default and marking people who get downvotes with special marks?

I think in that scenario bans because downvoting patterns would be far more aggressive

You may be noticing now. But people have been doing terrible things without consequences forever.

Someone in this thread is using bots to support an anti-ai statement. I don't know if you or other person, that I don't know. But I'm almost sure about bot usage.

Using bots to oppose AI is hilarious btw.