It’s up to the PieFed instance admin to decide that, it’s not hard-coded.
My use of it is to reduce the value of votes from instances that have disabled downvotes. My reasoning is they’re only giving me half the “quality signal” that normal up+down voting does so their up votes are less reliable. In practice this has almost no effect as the user base of those instances is tiny and they cast very few votes.
Instances with a niche political ideology might find it helpful to de-emphasise the views of other more mainstream instances. I have not bothered.
It’s an interesting experiment but one that I haven’t found as much use for as I thought I might.
It’s up to the PieFed instance admin to decide that, it’s not hard-coded.
My use of it is to reduce the value of votes from instances that have disabled downvotes. My reasoning is they’re only giving me half the “quality signal” that normal up+down voting does so their up votes are less reliable. In practice this has almost no effect as the user base of those instances is tiny and they cast very few votes.
Instances with a niche political ideology might find it helpful to de-emphasise the views of other more mainstream instances. I have not bothered.
It’s an interesting experiment but one that I haven’t found as much use for as I thought I might.