Hello - Please take a look at @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world . They have downvoted every single post in 3 communities (over 200 posts) in a very narrow window of time. They either automated their voting, or they are very focused
Move to an instance without downvotes. Checking up on peoples voting records and getting them banned for downvoting is appalling imo.
One person choosing to downvote everything in a community hardly makes it vote manipulation.
What is a better term for that? Abuse?
I don’t see why there needs to be a term for it. I don’t see anything wrong with it.
How do you see that?
Also, people can be pretty dedicated. I have a few fans myself.
Votes are public, you can see them using a instance that shows them (like old mbin), or if you are a moderator of a community the votes are in, or if your a instance admin of any community.
Sure. Votes are public, but the attribution of votes are not public afaik, although not explicitly hidden. Do you have a link providing evidence that its the aforementioned user doing the down-voting?
Votes are public, but the attribution of votes are not public afaik
They are. You can use Tesseract to see every single username that voted on a post/comment.
Ooh I’ll have to test that. Thanks!
Tesseract
Do you have a link?
Ahh this is great thank you.
I still don’t see how to find out who is down voting what?
Also wow, look at this:
Some mod took action based on this and perma-banned them across the board! Based entirely on @jet@hackertalks.com, frankly, completely baseless speculation.
Whoever that mod is should be removed.
The username associated with every vote, up or down, is available through the ActivityPub API. If your instance doesn’t show them (and I believe lemmy instances don’t by default) some helpful soul has built a tool to view them. Sometimes it fails for reasons unknown, but it lets you see who’s up or down voted a particular post or comment. I believe nom-lemmy interfaces like kbin also show you that information.
You have to be a moderator and use “view votes” from the mod menu, and then they will show up at the bottom of the post.
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Here’s a direct example. Just view your comment on something like an mbin instance (the upvotes are “favorites” and the downvotes are “reduces”). Most mbin instances no longer display downvote information.
https://fedia.io/m/support@lemmy.world/t/2154000/Vote-manipulation-by-a-single-lemmy-world-account/comment/10633015/favourites
nope, nothing public. But the LW admins can just do a query against the voting table for this user and verify it easily - hence this post asking them to do so.
Ok so to be clear then, this is just you making up an accusation.
You don’t have any evidence?
This is me asking the LW admins to confirm my findings and follow their TOS.
I see the votes on my side, I know its true.
So a quick sentiment analysis with two hypotheses:
‘The author of this text {} .’
h0: ‘engaging in respectful, normal internet banter’ h1: ‘is trolling or otherwise being rude.’
Looks pretty respectful.
and their usage patterns:
Looks like someone you might have just decided to have a problem with.z
Edit: So you’ve edited your post and claim to see the evidence on your side, but still, have not provided anything. Claiming someone is a bot and engaging in vote manipulation is a big claim and requires big evidence. I don’t currently believe you since you haven’t provided any.
These graphs are interesting, what do you use to generate them?
I’m not trying to prove anything to you, you’re not a lemmy world administrator
This entire post is to ask the Lemmy world administrators to intervene.
Seems you might be guilty of mass downvoting yourself, by your own suggestion.
Out of interest, which communities do you downvote at 100% daily for multiple days without blocking them?
None, I block communities I don’t like. The post you are referencing, is a idea for lemmy clients to encourage people to use block instead of downvoting.
