Just like Reddit, PieFed keeps track of how many upvotes and downvotes your posts receive and the net value of all the votes received is called your “reputation” (Reddit calls it “karma”). This is not shown in the UI anywhere (except to administrators), to dissuade the karma-farming behavior common on Reddit. Reputation is not a game or status symbol, it is a mechanic for enhancing trust and safety on PieFed.
Some people have criticized PieFed for this, calling it a “social credit system” similar to the one in China so I thought it’d be good to explain exactly what it does so people don’t need to guess or rely on hearsay.
It’s interesting because I encounter the red triangles fairly often, but generally have good interactions with those accounts. Everyone in the wnba community has them, but my interactions there have been fine and reasonable so far, presumably because the poor reputation is from interactions in other communities — someone could be very confrontational about politics, but amiable about basketball, for instance. I suspect there’s a reasonable chance I have the red triangles as well, because I do a lot of posting in communities that I suspect have been flagged as “low quality” because of their low subscriber count relative to the frequency of posts. I get what you’re going for, and I think it’s a good direction to be heading, but it feels like there’s a little more tinkering to be done before it’s working as intended.
I just had a look at that community.
Those people are all Donald J Musk’s alts and that guy is universally hated.
Working as intended in that case.
I suspect I can infer from this I should create a separate wnba community on a separate instance, then, rather than continuing to post there?
Yes all his communities will never go anywhere, he’s banned from most instances.
I understand your meaning more broadly, but thinking narrowly about the mechanics of blocking and federation, does a community’s owner or moderator being banned from an instance effect how posts to that community from other actors are disseminated across the fediverse?
No, it doesn’t stop posts in their communities (except their posts in their communities). It might stop their moderation actions from being accepted though, which effectively makes the community unmoderated and a liability.
This seems like a bug. Probably when someone is banned all the communities they’re the sole active moderator of should be locked. Or a warning shown to the admins, or something.
Thanks for explaining the mechanics. I’m kinda glad you’re thinking about federating moderation actions for blocked accounts instead of me cuz that sounds complicated and difficult to get right.
It’s endless!
Btw papasqat is another one of his alts and plays games like this https://piefed.social/c/modabuse@lemmy.sdf.org/p/2265140/i-got-banned-from-seven-pointless-slop-subreddits-that-i-d-never-heard-of-and-want-noth
Lemmy.today is silenced now, which will stop people from stumbling into their Comms.
I knew that guy’s behaviour seemed familiar, somehow. Just couldn’t place why.