From Donald.win here just letting you guys know. You left the downvote button. Which means you are still not immune to getting brigaded. They will just downvote everything your community wants at the top. Beware.
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If they are in here in high enough numbers to downvote things below a threshold to see things, there would also be enough to make tons of woke posts and upvote them to the top too
If we don't have the ability to downvote ridiculous posts, what would happen to them? Are posts curated here? Do the mods censor ones they deem inappropriate? I'd rather it be us the users that vote on the validity of posts.
Well it doesn't matter... They can post all the woke shit they want, and you can call them out without getting banned. The only reason T_D wasn't on the front page everyday is because they censored it. The cream rises to the top baby!
leave it in and just make it not work. then you can see who is mass clicking the downvotes and ban that ass
You're part of the .win now, so I'd expect the chances of them popping up to be much higher.
But it's a very cute downvote button, you have to give them that.
First of all, "Vivian James" (the redhead) and "Lillian Woods" (the blonde...some debate on whether her name is spelled with a double l or not) are a GamerGate institution. Vivian is our mascot, even her name is a play on "vidya games", while Lillian, a play on "Literally Who?", the term we used for 3 professional victims who tried to make GamerGate all about themselves when it wasn't, was actually created by our opponents as a kind of rebuttal to Vivian....until we noticed that these supposed champions of social justice had just made an aryan palette swap of our girl, embarrassed them with their hypocritical mistake, and appropriated her for ourselves. In our "canon", Vivian and Lillian are cousins and friendly rivals, which is kind of our way of saying "look, we're all gamers, stop treating this internet spat like it's a fight to the death".
So we don't want either of them going anywhere. But we also don't have the same problem TD does with shills and downvote bots. Encountering people who actually seem to be paid shills is fairly rare on KIA, and even on reddit, when we get brigaded it's more your garden variety troll subs who think we said something stupid, and they often UPVOTE the thread they're brigading.
“embarrassed them with their hypocritical mistake, and appropriated her for ourselves.“
I’m about to do what’s called a ‘pro gamer move’
KIA doesn't have the Donald's issue of ultra-high thread turnover.
I suspect more KIA users use "New" than "Hot", "Top", or "Rising".
Oh no, my internet points!
Pfff, come and take them. Help raise the popularity and reach, assholes.
Good point. The numbers that really matter go up the minute they come here.
I like how it is on TD. Only updates for each post and the down votes are only in the comments.
LET THEM
They'll fall like the rest
I'd argue strongly otherwise.
Downvoting isn't the problem. Things that prevent voting are the problem.
Stickies, vote hiding, vote "munging", shadowbans for dissenters.
Look at the responses to earlier Reddit admin "amusing" announcements (before said vote-preventions went into effect) for the system working as intended.
It's not black&white "disable downvotes" or "let them downvote any reasonable post or argument into oblivion until only their views were being seen.".
You can control for the latter without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
(Note: minor modification of an earlier comment of mine on the subject.)