Examples that come to mind are political communities, linus tech tips, diet communities, etc. There will be a group of people who will not make comments, posts, but will strictly downvote everything that is in the community.

This is a continuation of a discussion @Blaze@feddit.org and I started elsewhere, but it deserves it's own space for meta-moderation discussion.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People who run instances can see the votes already, so we can automate some possible solutions now.

Thanks for the reference to the previous discussion, I had no idea.

One possible response to this would be a slashdot style system where you only get a few downvotes randomly assigned in a interval, so you have to be choosy with them.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 5 months ago

People who run instances can see the votes already, so we can automate some possible solutions now.

It's definitely doable, that would probably help a few mods.

One possible response to this would be a slashdot style system where you only get a few downvotes randomly assigned in a interval, so you have to be choosy with them.

Indeed