• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    Currently it does not, if someone really dislikes a community enough to down vote a post and then go through the effort to open it and also downvote the only comment, it’s a strong signal they are not a good fit for the community

    My educated opinion as someone writing such automation, is that this is a very flawed approach. All it would take is a post against the community ethos, to ban community regulars who downvoted it. If it has no comment threshold and no validation of the general sentiment of the post in the comm, it can easily lead to false positives.

    I strongly suggest you tweak this approach.

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      My take is someone writing this sort of automation is sick of spending hours each day doing the bans manually

      What sort of false positive are you worried about when it only bans people whose only interaction has been negative? Regulars have upvoted stuff if they like the community.

      Do you ever visit a community and down vote the first thing you see and intend to return?

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      Oh I’m sorry, yes, the ban only applies if the account never comments, posts, or upvotes. A strictly negative interaction signal.

      I did notice a few accounts upvote something really old before they started to downvote, so my secret sauce has already been guessed

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        It sounds like a helpful tool, but you might have to use some manual review because I don’t think an automated system can easily avoid all the false positives and false negatives.

        I was experimenting with similar stuff that counts mass downvotes, and I think it yields some interesting results.