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  • Nath@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Have read this. I was particularly heartened by the statement on that TransJustice site:

    We have been totally overwhelmed by the number of responses to our survey on experiences of anti-trans hate in Australia. We will provide more information in time but wanted to thank everyone for the support this project has received.

    This backs up what I was saying: You are surrounded by people who support you.

    As to the downvoter: I did make an attempt at that. The database under the hood of Lemmy is overwhelming. Basically, it contains all the federated content. If a single aussie.zone user subscribes to a community on another instance, then that content is in the database. The example posted in the other thread doesn’t work for us: It shows who has upvoted/downvoted a single thread. But that’s not what we want to do in your case. I need to search comment tables for posts you have been in and then cross-reference the comment_like table for postid, userid and commentid.

    I’m not a Database admin by trade, I’m ok at database stuff, but this is some complicated bit of table join logic. It might be beyond me, but I haven’t given up, yet.

      • Pilk@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        Definitely looks like downvotes can be switched off but might be a community- or instance-wide thing.

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        1 year ago

        That setting exists, but it’s instance-wide. It would be a pretty drastic change to all of aussie.zone. I wouldn’t personally be against it, I never use downvote anyway. But, it isn’t a change I could arbitarily make.

    • Pilk@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Assuming you are able to identify a serial downvoter (or downvoters), what do you intend to do with that information?

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        A fair question. And something that I have given thought to. It’ll depend on what is turned up. Downvoting a comment on its own is not against the rules. So, potentially nothing.

        Stalking a user across multiple communities, downvoting all their comments while otherwise not being engaged at all in those communities takes us into bullying territory. Reddit had a built-in defense against that activity. If you go to a user profile there and just downvote all the comments, they don’t actually take effect against the target. Lemmy doesn’t have that feature yet. From that point, we’ll see. I honestly don’t know if it’s even possible to do more than just see the vote records. If I delete a downvote, Lemmy may simply restore it through the next federation sync.

        Whatever it is, I’ll be transparent about it. I’m also conscious of the precedent this might set. Neither Lodion nor I are much interested in poking through the database and manually touching anything lightly.