Zeb
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@Background Pony #65F3
Naw. We understand that there’s a lot of personal feelings or gut reactions that can be the reason for downvoting something.
The issues only come when it’s either using multiple accounts, or purposefully targeting an entire subject they know they dislike. Or even searching for things they have filtered for the sole purpose of downvoting them.
Downvoting every, or a majority, of images under a tag isn’t very rare. It’s just hard to spot.
And related to the upvote abuse: Yes, we do consider upvotes also abusable. Though in different ways.
Using multiple accounts to upvote the same image is an offence we punish when it’s caught.
Though we do not punish someone for upvoting an entire tag.
The reason for that difference is: We have filters that allow people to hide content they know they do not wish to see. If someone knows they hate a subject, them targeting it isn’t fair for the people who do enjoy that content or are indifferent to it.
@shadic1988
If you mean blacklisting as in hiding tags: That doesn’t work for every instance. Sometimes an image may not have any tags or combination of tags that you want to hide, but that specific image is just something that you no longer wish to see when doing searches. It could be the way the characters are drawn in that image, their facial expressions, just some non-taggable thing that makes that 1 image too much to stand for that person.
Currently, you can add the individual image’s ID to your complex filters, though that takes more work. The hide button would be similar, just a more streamlined process. And wouldn’t affect your current filters the same way as adding the ID’s to your filter would.
Naw. We understand that there’s a lot of personal feelings or gut reactions that can be the reason for downvoting something.
The issues only come when it’s either using multiple accounts, or purposefully targeting an entire subject they know they dislike. Or even searching for things they have filtered for the sole purpose of downvoting them.
Downvoting every, or a majority, of images under a tag isn’t very rare. It’s just hard to spot.
And related to the upvote abuse: Yes, we do consider upvotes also abusable. Though in different ways.
Using multiple accounts to upvote the same image is an offence we punish when it’s caught.
Though we do not punish someone for upvoting an entire tag.
The reason for that difference is: We have filters that allow people to hide content they know they do not wish to see. If someone knows they hate a subject, them targeting it isn’t fair for the people who do enjoy that content or are indifferent to it.
@shadic1988
If you mean blacklisting as in hiding tags: That doesn’t work for every instance. Sometimes an image may not have any tags or combination of tags that you want to hide, but that specific image is just something that you no longer wish to see when doing searches. It could be the way the characters are drawn in that image, their facial expressions, just some non-taggable thing that makes that 1 image too much to stand for that person.
Currently, you can add the individual image’s ID to your complex filters, though that takes more work. The hide button would be similar, just a more streamlined process. And wouldn’t affect your current filters the same way as adding the ID’s to your filter would.