pollodiaboloDid Google really just say they'll delete accounts "together with all data"? š
https://media.kbin.social/fd/b2/fdb2f10b818797400941e30617ad9355a7a7d7c009b53fbfe0444b9423509a32.jpg
FaceDeerIf you read it closely, they say they "reserve the right to" delete the accounts/data after 2 years of inactivity. They don't actually say they will.
ohhh now this makes more sense than the misleading headline. they're just saying "we wanna keep your data, but we also don't wanna be liable in case us having your data ever becomes a problem to us, so we reserve the right to get rid of it whenever we want for no reason and claim we never had it in the first place
Do you really think they deleted or they just cut your access?
MartineskiOh, they said that they will:
We are going to roll this out slowly and carefully, with plenty of notice:
- While the policy takes effect today, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account ā the earliest we will begin deleting accounts is December 2023.
- We will take a phased approach, starting with accounts that were created and never used again.
- Before deleting an account, we will send multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided).
Source: blog.google/ā¦/updating-our-inactive-account-policā¦
ohhh now this makes more sense than the misleading headline. they're just saying "we wanna keep your data, but we also don't wanna be liable in case us having your data ever becomes a problem to us, so we reserve the right to get rid of it whenever we want for no reason and claim we never had it in the first place
@pollodiabolo, it's interesting that whenever you post, you get boosts from the same set of accounts that downvote every other thread that trends towards the top. Incidentally, this happens when those other account post too! How strange amirite?
@journalism_died @ishitwhite @muftiboy @kilkennygriffin and way more than I can tag here
Yes @at-fieldu I know it's you too don't feel left out
Shill op?
OP tryna karma farm by boosting the fuck out of their posts from any account and downvote the top few posts so that theirs gets pushed even further, seen them doing it a bunch of times. What a loser lmao.
I saw similar patterns in politics for news articles about politicians. I assumed it was also a shill op
Netto HikariāKarma farmingā isnāt even possible on Lemmy. Thereās literally no total of up- and downvotes displayed anywhere. And having a meme artificially pushed to the top without reason seems to be nonsensical to me.
It's a kbin account, we have reputation points here, similar to Reddit karma. Even if they post to a lemmy community from kbin, upvotes and boosts will give them karma
Oh yes, I totally overlooked that. Shouldāve known that when you said āboostā.
Someone coming from reddit that doesnāt understand how lemmy works? Will it be a self correcting problem once they realize thereās absolutely nothing to be gained by shilling posts? Will be interesting to see how this plays out. On a related note, does anyone know if you block a user are their votes still included in the totals you see for posts and comments?
Kbin has karma, OP is posting from kbin to lemmy
WanderNice catch.
With upvotes and downvotes being public manipulation is much more difficul
How can you see whoās voting?
Iām pretty sute the admins can see all the actions on the instance. This reporting is valuable as fuck to spot manipulation
pretty disappointing that there's people here who care about reputation despite it meaning even less than reddit karma(which is meaningless past like 200 to pass subs' minimum karma requirements)
honestly wouldn't mind the total reputation counter being hidden to prevent rep farming
Catch42I think reputation points should cap out. If we set the cap at 1000 (arbitrary number) anyone with more than that it would just display 1000+ It'd be useful to have a separate counter on magazine basis. That way if someone made their own magazine or instance and upvoted their own posts to grind reputation points before coming to troll on another magazine or instance it'd still be detectable.
Thanks, gonna block all these!
That wouldn't help you much sadly. This person has at least 10-15 accounts (that I can reasonably suspect based on their boosting history) and they will definitely make even more as people get to know about them. You can expect an increase in shills as kbin becomes more popular too lol.
It's nice to know some of the posts I've seen those accounts downvoted aren't by people who're really downvoting what the content is about.
PseuOnce the raw emails have been fed into their ad targeting system, the content of those emails loses the vast majority of its value. Storage is cheap, but not free and inactive accounts have particularly low value. So of course they'll delete the data.