I’ve noticed some users (seemingly randomly) get massive voting power in the text-to-image plugin gallery, i.e. their upvotes and downvotes matter far more than others and can single-handedly fling an image almost to the top of the trending page or make a trending image vanish to the abyss. This can help with turnover on the trending page, but a lot of the time it just leads to the “supervoter” spamming a bunch of similar images and flooding the trending page with their own images. Then, just as randomly, the supervote capability will go away and it’s back to their vote barely having any effect.
It’s obvious from watching the ai-text-to-image-generator gallery enough that not everyone’s vote is equal, and for a while I suspected shenanigans from botnets to people colluding with circles of friends to collectively upvote their stuff, but then I experienced being a supervoter and then it all made sense.
I was practically curating the ai-text-to-image-generator trending page myself for the last couple days, but now my votes don’t matter again. 😅
It seems unlikely this is a bug, though I’m curious why it was implemented if it’s intended behavior.