True. I suppose you could get to that reputation. Maybe it also accounts for time between each downvote. So I can imagine someone who doesn’t upvote but occasionally downvotes, and downvotes in a fair way. I don’t think they should get penalised. Perhaps it already accounts for this as someone like that is obviously very different than a spam-downvoter.
Once an account has made a few votes, an “attitude” is calculated each time they vote which is the percentage of up votes vs. down votes.
People who downvote more than upvote tend to be the ones who get in fights a lot and say snarky, inflammatory and negative things. If you were at a dinner party, would you want them around? By reviewing the list of people with bad attitudes you can make decisions about who you want to be involved in our communities.
All these accounts have been downvoting a lot (Attitude column) and receiving some downvotes (Rep column). Their profiles are worth a look and then making a decision about whether they’re bringing down the vibe or not.
I agree. That’s why it should take into account time between downvotes. Although I will add that I think the particular usertype you’re hypothesising is pretty rare.
But the system is specifically designed to punish those who downvote if they don’t upvote enough
True. I suppose you could get to that reputation. Maybe it also accounts for time between each downvote. So I can imagine someone who doesn’t upvote but occasionally downvotes, and downvotes in a fair way. I don’t think they should get penalised. Perhaps it already accounts for this as someone like that is obviously very different than a spam-downvoter.
Would have to go through the code but most likely just ratio of up to down
Nvm didn’t need to as it’s part of their join description
https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/
Find people who downvote too much
Once an account has made a few votes, an “attitude” is calculated each time they vote which is the percentage of up votes vs. down votes.
People who downvote more than upvote tend to be the ones who get in fights a lot and say snarky, inflammatory and negative things. If you were at a dinner party, would you want them around? By reviewing the list of people with bad attitudes you can make decisions about who you want to be involved in our communities.
All these accounts have been downvoting a lot (Attitude column) and receiving some downvotes (Rep column). Their profiles are worth a look and then making a decision about whether they’re bringing down the vibe or not.
I can throw it to Rimu, although I imagine the amount of users that truly only occasionally downvote (and never upvote) are pretty rare.
As per my edit it’s the entire point of the system to only go by up and down votes
Okay? Downvotes are valid at identifying bad posts, but spam downvoting is frowned on all the same.
It’s not spam if the user only downvotes. They may not think anything is worth an upvote but do see lots that they think are downvotes
I agree. That’s why it should take into account time between downvotes. Although I will add that I think the particular usertype you’re hypothesising is pretty rare.
Not really, but sure. Again if people care about downvotes that much it should just not be an option instead of used as a way to purge