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Recently joined and started a community for people who want to move away from Lemmy and want to see Lemmy loosen its stranglehold on the threadiverse, if that seems like something interesting to you consider checking out !cancel_lemmy@piefed.social

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Admins can turn it on/off, I’ve turned it on for my instance. https://quokk.au/modlog

That's still not really much better. It should be on by default, the whole reason there's a modlog is for liability. Hiding the modlog isn't doing anyone any favors, don't try to tell me that there's merit to that. Obfuscation of mod actions is hiding them from accountability.

So what you're saying is that they have a Social Credit Karma system like Reddit does? I already hate it.

Not that I'm aware of, members can see what percentage others vote (i.e. do you vote 100% downvotes?) but that's about it. Mods and admins can see a reputation metric, but that's not forward facing to the public and simply a way for bad faith actors to be flagged.

Piefed puts weight on votes, the software punishes for being downvoted a lot. Therefore this is in a sense a social credit system. And it's made worse by the fact that you can exclude upvotes from counting but downvotes still count in there, so you can make it very difficult to earn ~~social credit~~ reputation but easy to lose it. That's not acceptable to me, that's worse than the environment on Reddit. This isn't a good thing.