• Rimu@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    How the hell does an article that we can’t even read get so many upvotes.

    Stuff like this really shakes my belief in the voting system.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        My take as well.
        Was recently “assaulted” by a load of China-stans. So I assume this is similar pro-china (neutral about it) or at least anti-US (positive about that) community upvoting it.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Because hate for AI is so blind that you can post anything and people will immediately fall for it.

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        2 months ago

        Also any win or loss for China gets upvoted to oblivion by the tankies or sinophobes respectively.

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      2 months ago

      People only read the title, not the article

      You can’t require reading the article before someone vote/comment, but what if communities could enable “ponder voting” where users can only vote 30 seconds after viewing the post? This would prevent people from scrolling by from voting, but people who at least slightly skim the article first won’t be affected.

      Probably not viably due to it having to be supported by all platforms, but just a thought.

      EDIT: It could work by returning a JWT with a post ID and time when fetching the post and having the vote endpoint support providing it. Although, I can also see it being a bit annoying and being trivially bypassed by adding some code to the client.