• anlumo@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    There are cryptographic methods to do this, but it’s probably not worth it to implement them for this.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      Honestly, not implementing anonymous voting probably helps with preventing brigading, too. Reddit worldnews (around the api debacle began) became a nightmare of downvote bots towards anything that wasn’t “Israel = good” in any way, and so many spam articles upvoted to the surface from random, unverified sources.

      Edit to add: threat of defederation towards communities allowing or encouraging this behavior would probably be better, though.