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No one can tell me that this is goddam normal, not if we consider pretty much every other fucking pic or comment here. What's going on here? Robots? Invasion?
Jerl
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Proxies - forgot to mention those. Well, fine then, there are people who can only access this site via proxies (including me for a few weeks after my provider srewed something up), so we better not ban those altogether (please, that would scare me!) Just wanted to ask, because this was annoying me for a long time now. However, the GochiUsa-downvoter might only use a single normal account, dunno (can anons vote?). In that case you should maybe take a good look at him, because he's suspicious.
Jerl
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Only the site owner can actually see anything about who made what vote on an image. The rest of the mod team has no way of seeing who's doing it. Even if we did conclusively identify that it's one single user doing that downvoting, they aren't breaking any rules, so we can't ban or even warn them for it. The only thing we could actually look into if we knew their user account is their uploads and their tag history; once again, only the site owner has the ability to look up anything else they've done. And I verify every single tag edit made on the site (even by other moderators) and haven't seen anything suspicious, so there's that.
By the way, it's actually impossible to ban all proxies. You can turn your home computer into a proxy that anyone else could use, so the only way to ban proxies is to actually run into a user using them. There are lists out there of known proxies, but even those are going to be incomplete.
Only the site owner can actually see anything about who made what vote on an image. The rest of the mod team has no way of seeing who's doing it. Even if we did conclusively identify that it's one single user doing that downvoting, they aren't breaking any rules, so we can't ban or even warn them for it. The only thing we could actually look into if we knew their user account is their uploads and their tag history; once again, only the site owner has the ability to look up anything else they've done. And I verify every single tag edit made on the site (even by other moderators) and haven't seen anything suspicious, so there's that.
By the way, it's actually impossible to ban all proxies. You can turn your home computer into a proxy that anyone else could use, so the only way to ban proxies is to actually run into a user using them. There are lists out there of known proxies, but even those are going to be incomplete.
I think the voting option is pointless to begin with. It only brings negativity. I think removing the voting option on images would be a better idea and allow only accounts that have been registered for at least 3 days to vote on comments.
Jerl
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Only the site owner can actually see anything about who made what vote on an image. The rest of the mod team has no way of seeing who's doing it. Even if we did conclusively identify that it's one single user doing that downvoting, they aren't breaking any rules, so we can't ban or even warn them for it. The only thing we could actually look into if we knew their user account is their uploads and their tag history; once again, only the site owner has the ability to look up anything else they've done. And I verify every single tag edit made on the site (even by other moderators) and haven't seen anything suspicious, so there's that.
By the way, it's actually impossible to ban all proxies. You can turn your home computer into a proxy that anyone else could use, so the only way to ban proxies is to actually run into a user using them. There are lists out there of known proxies, but even those are going to be incomplete.
I think the voting option is pointless to begin with. It only brings negativity. I think removing the voting option on images would be a better idea and allow only accounts that have been registered for at least 3 days to vote on comments.
Members of the mod team have been telling lozer that for at least 5 years now, and he's still giving a firm "no".
Anti_Gendou
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It just seems that images with certain tags... usually character or copyright, get targeted by this shit.
Otherwise, voting is somewhat on the level a lot of the time. Admittedly, Danbooru's approach to ban all anons from voting and only allowing users to do it might have actually been a good step after all.
Don't remember if it only allowed certain users to vote or anyone with an account. Even just blocking anons would make it a bit better.
Jerl
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Oh, another unfortunate thing about user accounts on Gelbooru is that you don't need an email for them. Given that the maximum length for a username is pretty long, there's an effectively inexhaustible number of random usernames to register accounts to proxy downvote, and you can just register them and start using them immediately without any verification or anything. It'd be pretty easy to automate, too.
Anti_Gendou
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