It's a good thing, and I applaud your team's response. But I'm still remaining skeptical until I see how the system handles a large-scale downvote squad. ;) It's not that I don't want to believe you, it's just that I have too much experience with Internet trolls.
Totally understand where you're coming from! But lets be realistic for a minute... when it comes to large, organized down vote squads (brigades) I believe any action taken will be purely reactionary as there is no preventive system in the world that is able to just predict these types of events. At most we can be pro-active by tracking certain elements to look for patterns, but at the end of the day we are at the mercy of how good our reaction to this is. The good thing is, as long as the tools exist we can mitigate a lot of the damage and then focus on removing that element from the community.
It's a good thing, and I applaud your team's response. But I'm still remaining skeptical until I see how the system handles a large-scale downvote squad. ;) It's not that I don't want to believe you, it's just that I have too much experience with Internet trolls.
Totally understand where you're coming from! But lets be realistic for a minute... when it comes to large, organized down vote squads (brigades) I believe any action taken will be purely reactionary as there is no preventive system in the world that is able to just predict these types of events. At most we can be pro-active by tracking certain elements to look for patterns, but at the end of the day we are at the mercy of how good our reaction to this is. The good thing is, as long as the tools exist we can mitigate a lot of the damage and then focus on removing that element from the community.