Recently, many of our anti-Zionists posts have been downvoted to oblivion by liberals. As hexberians realized a while back, downvotes only help liberals since they are more numerous and they don’t need to engage in discourse. I am proposing to just get rid of downvotes and instead engage in discourse on content that we disagree on.
I will mention @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml right now I see two posts by regular users on the Palestine issue that are very mysteriously dunked down into negative digits.
I think we may have an issue of an influence operation targeting our instance (specifically posts on occupied Palestine). Is there a way an admin could look into this? Maybe check where these downvotes are coming from, maybe a defederation against a brigade/downvote bot instance could be in order. Or at least banning cowardly fascist users doing it.
Otherwise I guess we could just ignore it. I’d rather not buckle to removing downvotes as that’s giving them power over us and removing a tool but if a less busy admin could look into it manually it might be nice to frustrate their efforts.
There is the possibility of a compromise here too. Weighting of votes by instance. With home instance users having full weight to their votes and federated users getting their votes weighted to 0.33, 0.50, 0.66, 0.75 or something. Perhaps as an admin setting.
My post about the imperialist massacre at Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital had 83 downvotes yesterday. Now they are mysteriously gone.
We got the instance that was mass down voting and defeded, so it’s possible it removed their downvotes.