I take my shitposts very seriously.
report bad faith posts
You’re supposed to report posts that break instance or community rules, not whatever you happen to consider to be “bad faith”. You can’t moderate based on intent, only actions, otherwise you’re asking for a thought police where only the popular opinion is permitted to exist.
Besides, even if your instance has disabled downvotes, other instances can still see them.
Depending on your sorting method, downvoted posts will be featured less favorably in list views. You will immediately know that a heavily downvoted post is not worth your attention. Some clients might let you filter displayed posts based on vote counts or up/down ratio.
Downvote and move on. Mute accounts and communities you don’t want to see. Curate your own feed. Simple as.
The issue was ARP-related after all. Since all computers were cloned from the same image, the VMs ended up having the same MAC address, which caused collisions.
I think you need four distinct MAC addresses for this setup, are they all different?
We have a winner!
The classroom computers were mass-deployed using Clonezilla, from a disk image that already had the VM pre-configured. As a result, every VM had the same MAC address. Bridged networking put both hosts and both VMs in the same broadcast domain, which caused collisions in the ARP tables. I randomized the MAC address of one VM and everything suddenly started working.
It’s never been an issue since we’ve never needed to use anything other than the default NAT adapter, so I’ve never even questioned it. I found the solution after plugging the computers directly into an access switch without success, and cross-checking show mac address-table with the MAC reported by the VMs revealed that they were identical.
I checked ip neighbour (it also shows the ARP table, so I assume they’re identical), and it showed REACHABLE and STALE for addresses I could ping, but FAILED for the remote VM’s address. I will check arp -a when I get the chance, though.
I’ll give it a try tomorrow, thanks.
Although I’d still prefer to know why the VMs won’t talk over simple Ethernet.
I’d love to know what an actual moderator would think if you imposed your idea on them.