• 133arc585@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    To me, the issue is that it increased. Whether by a small amount or not is rather meaningless if your complaint is that troops are being committed at all. It could have increased by 30 troops and (although it wouldn’t have made news) it would bother me.

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        People are mean to me that I’m advocating for a senseless war with a nuclear element. Since obviously I can’t be wrong I’m taking my ball and hiding in my echo chamber

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          “I’m happy that Russia invaded Ukraine and I want nothing to do with it, I’m sure they’ll be fine”.

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            Not happy about Russia invading Ukraine but also not happy about the US potentially escalating to WW3. Ukraine is not worth a nuclear Holocaust

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        1 year ago

        LMFAO Like this is a valid excuse. Only 2 people in this comments section is from Lemmy.ml. Everyone else is commenting here from different servers.

        What a truly stupid take.

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          lemmy.ml is federated with lemmygrad.ml, and both are old instances (also run by the same people but that’s less relevant here). Point being is that all the people on tankie central are subscribed to !worldnews@lemmy.ml for their worldnews community and thus you get a certain voting pattern you don’t see in other worldnews communities even if you don’t see any lemmygrad.ml users commenting.

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              For values of “public info” that involve running an instance and inspecting the database. Also lemmy.ml itself has quite a high proportion of tankies as it’s the instance that tankies tend to use to interact with instances defederating lemmygrad.ml.

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                  This only further proves the point that up/down votes are useless here. I can have an account on each federated instance (just one, so not to possibly run afoul any local server rules) and have a script to just run through all of them to downvote something. Could easily be a hundred votes at my singular whim.

                  If the names of the accounts are not particularly linked… you wouldn’t really be able to tell that there was much vote manipulation either.

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              Bullshit. They have very precise meaning: How many people up- and downvote things.

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                  1 year ago

                  Their value lies in their meaning which is telling everyone how much something got upvoted or downvoted.

                  Really, it’s a simple concept.