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https://poal.co/s/SiteBans/9829

Poal is being brigaded. Making voting history publicly available is a proposed solution.

Let's discuss the good and the bad of this solution, and other solutions we can implement to solve this problem.

https://poal.co/s/SiteBans/9829 Poal is being brigaded. Making voting history publicly available is a proposed solution. Let's discuss the good and the bad of this solution, and other solutions we can implement to solve this problem.

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[–] • 1 pt

Interesting thought. Quick thought experiment:

Alice upvotes Barry. Alice deletes her account.

What does Barry's account say for the upvotes? Does it say "Received 1 upvotes from [Deleted]"? In this case, if Charlie, Danni, and Edgar all do the same as Alice would it then say "Received 4 upvotes from [Deleted]"?

Would these upvotes go away entirely? Would there no longer be a record of voting from that person in the entire database?

It strikes me as something interesting- a public ledger for all decisions made. I remember an argument being made for using a blockchain to do this very same thing.

I can see the benefits- if an Alt is just used to bump a few accounts, it would be easy to identify based on the ledger. However, a person could be browbeaten for their voting practices as well- having a person's voting record used as a weapon against them may reduce the amount of votes from timid/paranoid/cautious users. That would be doubly concerning if an account is dox'd.

I'll need to spend some time contemplating this.

[–] • 4 pts

That thought experiment is interesting. Both end results could be abused.

As for the rest, I err on the side of anonymity. Just because of all the people looking to get others fired/arrested for what they say on the internet.

Also, fuck. I remember a time when what you said publicly was not on record forever. I just don't want Poal to turn into a place where you're having a conversation and then some dick comes in and says, "Ya, well, you upvoted this post, so that must mean you actually think this, you such and such."

[–] • 1 pt

When an account is deleted or banned it’s status changes in the database, but comments and posts remain.

That’s a “Throat” core design.

That way a user that wants their account back (unbanned or restored from deletion) can easily turned back to active by changing a value in the database.