• Rimu@piefed.social
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    9 hours 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.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

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

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      5 hours 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.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 minutes 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.

    • Barrington@feddit.org
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      6 hours ago

      It’s one of those subscription blocks you can get around by selecting reading mode in Firefox.

      I’m not sure if it works for other browsers but I was able to read the article.