Well, title says it clear. We might need some condition to prevent trolls from creating a lot of accounts and taking over whole instance. I’d like to discuss ideas for this. Like, amount of days on instance could work, but I’m not sure if it would work out very well. Anyway, please share your opinions on this whole subject.
EDIT: There’s a lot of opinions, but, at least for me, looks like whatever system we’ll come up with, it will either be based on time from account creation or on activity(or maybe both). Correct me if i wrong.
Restrict voting to one vote per ip, and accounts created over VPN cannot vote and must apply for an unrestricted account that has to be manually approved by instance owner. There should also be a “partial defederation” option so if an instance is too lenient on account approvals for those unrestricted accounts created over VPN, other instance owners can defederate only the votes from the “problematic instance”, but still federate for all other purposes.
@IsThisLemmyOpen There are people who live in truly oppressive places where they need to use VPNs to browse and post things or else they can be arrested and in some cases imprisoned or even executed. Requiring manual approval by the instance owner for unrestricted VPN use is unsustainable.
@Hagarashi8
This assumes @TheDude@sh.itjust.works is willing to do this. Even if he is, I for one would feel bad about foisting off work like this onto him. Little annoyances like these add up