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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy has no total score anymore, so the up and down votes only matter in the topic layer. I think that's the best solution rn. There's no big incentive any longer to point farm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

but also no disincentive to troll.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Also even when some are trolling, the up/down vote will not gain/lose attention for the troll. Trolls love attention.

The lack of karma means participation is there not whether it is a troll or regular.

Unless it is spam, almost no one is punished/rewarded for participating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

On Lemmy there is disincentive to troll right? If you're being too much of a troll you might get thrown out of your instance for making it look bad. Unless you selfhost of course. I'm not sure why botspam from selfhosted lemmy's is not a bigger problem to be honest. You can deferate them but it's easy to make new ones.