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Allow restricting posting and commenting to subscribers: https://lemmy.world/comment/18549782
My ideal default would be, users have to subscribe to vote, because drive-by downvotes are very common, and keep niche communities from getting anywhere in the
Allfeed.Eh, a good community owner will catch the repeat downvoters and ban them. It does exist, but if you're on top of your community you will be able to stop it.
Not if always done by what looks to be random accounts, and also that takes effort, which gets harder as a community grows in size.
Yeah, I suppose in my experience - most of the downvoters that caused problems were persistent. You'll never stop downvote noise though. But that also goes for upvote noise.
Unless you limit all votes to only count from subscribers. It would not stop dedicated trolls who simply subscribe purely in order to manipulate votes, but it would halt all casual drive-by noise.
I mean if you limited votes purely to subscribers as a new community, you'd get nowhere because no post would trend for anyone new to find the community.
Hrm... might still be worth it?
Or switch a community only after it increases to a certain size or at least passes an age threshold.
Or only allow votes from "trusted" instances, where moderation practices are actually enforced and serial abusers are detected and banned.
I think it should be completely up to community owners. I have no problem with them being able to make that choice.
It is!:-)