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There isn't and Lemmygrad.ml users have been doing it in the past. Mostly down-vote brigading though and this is the main reason why down-votes are disabled on our instance.
Personally I think there should be a setting to prevent down-votes from federating as there is really no point in federating them to instances with other rules and different community culture.
Huh - I had not even considered downvotes in other instances... Yeah that seems problematic. Maybe rather than defederating downvotes, there could be a way to differentiate between local and global up/downvotes.
This sounds interesting. I see two possibilities for that:
Actually when I think about it, a combination of both would also be possible.
Just let each instance/community decide its own policy. People will naturally flock to whichever policy works out.
Brigaded up-votes are almost as harmful as brigaded down=votes. Down-votes also keep out the trolls until a critical mass of trolls has been reached. Hopefully there are more advanced methods in the future.
Malicious instances would need to be blocked by the instance you are registered to.
As for multiple accounts - couldn't the same thing be done on reddit? Just make a bunch of alts and self-inflate your own posts/comments.
These issues are as old as the internet and can only be mitigated, not prevented.
I guess this kind of instances will be banned. If it becomes obvious.
There are already a bunch of spam-bot-instances, the admins have to spot them and block them actively.
Please do not make it ban based, just don't count it if you somehow make a vote manipulation detector.