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Should people be able to (down/)vote in communities they dont subscribe? (szmer.info)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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We had a random post in an anarchist community on our Polish speaking instance. Some 45 English speaking accounts came out of nowhere to downvote it, with a single one engaging in discussion. None of them were ever active on the instance, nor particularly in this community. Seems they just followed every crosspost.
Mods could not really do anything about it, so the accounts were banned from the entire instance by admins, as this was considered hostile behaviour against our community.
Which rises the question; should people be able to vote, end specially downvote, in communities they are not a part of? Maybe this could be at least a setting?

Another interesting concept that came from the discussion over that was "constructive downvote" - requirement of commenting why one downvotes a post.

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[–] Nougat@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Would it really matter? It's just as easy to subscribe and then say/do whatever. Only accounts that have been subscribed for a period of time? Subscribe and wait. Have a certain post and/or comment reputation? It's not terribly hard to speak to a specific audience and accomplish that. Make any of those extra parameters too severe, and you limit the community growth.

Crowdsourcing of ideas means that bad ideas are no worse than good ones, and in an evolutionary way, they're probably better at replication, strength, retention - and when a core tenet of that "bad" idea is that you must actively reject the opposing good ideas, that's how bad ideas overtake good ones.