For awhile it was single downvotes, but it seems that moved up to 2-3 on each comment. Even the most benign stuff gets hit, the pattern is clear.
Can I find this person and block them from seeing my posts? Never really delved into how lemmy works.
Probably doesn’t matter much because after awhile the forget and leave me alone for a bit.
Down vote me.
I fed a couple of your comments into lemvotes and found out who it was pretty easily. I imagine this is a bannable offense somewhere?
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432178
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432359Surprised the offender has a db0 account…
For anyone else wondering:
Divisions by zero lemmy.dbzer0.com
Be Weird, Download a Car, Generate Art, Screw Copyrights, Do Maths
Communities about Anarchism, Generative Al, Copylefts, Neurodivergence, Filesharing, and Free Software. (And Math!) Follow the Anarchist Code of Conduct and honor the Disengage Rule. Don’t be shitty to each other. Keep it SFW. Obey the spirit of The Golden Rules. Fuck around and find out.
Damn, they have Matrix setup.
Because of course they do
Yeah… there are a couple of toxic peeps I found from DB0, but I think it might work regardless. I could take a look and see.
Edit: Taking a look at the sight, it’s really good looking. Too bad their CoC is a thing, as that’s going to cause a lot of problems. Any CoC is bad for a community, and is how you do ethical source software, which I’m wholly against.
What’s the issue with their code of conduct, or having them in general?
Basically, a CoC can be the opposite of what it intended to be, as it can be weaponized by people who want to start problems in a community. They can be vague, punishment can be selective, and they can be confusing messes. I tried to find something on how CoC’s are destructive in this manner, but I don’t recall what it was.
What specifically about the CoC will cause issues? Can you provide examples or specific concerns? Your comments aren’t making a lot of sense in the context of OP.
I was essentially commenting on a separate comment, not OP’s post in particular.
As for concerns about the CoC, people can read the CoC and learn how to bend the rules so as to get people in trouble. That was my huge red flag if there was a CoC.
Neat! Don’t think I have the energy to do much about it, but that’s a great site, thank you very much!
Lemvotes is a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be depressing.
Looks like a normal short term lemmy fight, someone didn’t like what they said in a thread and opened their history and downvoted everything on the first screen. Going back 3 days and the downvotes stop.
- https://lemvotes.org/user/falsewhite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 downvotes in 2 minutes all against shalafi 6:41-6:42
- https://lemvotes.org/user/falsewhite@programming.dev 79 downvotes in 2 minutes all against shalafi 6:38-6:40
- https://lemvotes.org/user/falsewhite@lemmy.world 87 downvotes in 3 minutes all against shalafi 6:25-6:27, and 6:44-6:45
lemmy.world appears to be their main account, this seems to be the post that triggered them do do their downvoting spree: https://lemmy.world/post/41260627
Looks like the sock puppet master was angry for about 20 minutes, and got tired of manually downvoting. Still pretty terrible vote manipulation making lemmy a hostile place.
I think this is their main account: https://lemvotes.org/user/krimson@lemmy.world
Why do you think that?
It’s 2 years old, as opposed to the sock puppet ones which are 4 months old. It’s voting the same way as the other 3 also. I guess it doesn’t really matter which is the main, just thought I’d add it regardless since it wasn’t mentioned.
I’ve looked at the voting patterns and I can’t establish the link you mentioned, the falsewhite accounts are obviously alts/sockpuppets of each other, that is all I can say
43 downvotes across 2 minutes but at a 4 hours earlier then the other downvoting falsewhite accounts.
All targeting the same person as the other 3 accounts, 4 hours apart? That’s quite a coincidence if it’s not the same person. My guess is they first went through with their main account, then decided to do the same later with their other accounts. Either way, it’s the exact same behavior as the others, so it’s worth calling out in the exact same way.
I think on the original offending post, OP made some somewhat inflammatory comments about ADHD and Autism further down. I imagine the downvoter felt personally hurt by these comments, hence the temporary spree, driven mostly by emotion. I don’t agree with the vote manipulation but not knowing their full story I would caution against people coming across this and retaliating against this person. It seems like it was just a short response and hopefully they have had a chance to cool off now.
2 of these accounts have been deleted
- https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/falseWhite - deleted by admin
- https://lemmy.world/u/falseWhite - self-delete by user
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No matter what you post, someone will downvote it. It simply just doesn’t matter
I think OP is right to be concerned, because while we don’t have karma like reddit (thank god), supposing someome was browsing old posts in a comm[unity] they might utilise the “Top of all time” filter or even the “most controversial of all time” filter - if our OP here makes a particularly useful post, e.g about a tech support issue - then I’m pretty sure having extra downvotes will actually reduce the reach and visibility of the post, using these filters.
Also in this case it was just useful because it exposes someone acting in bad faith on the fed.
Up/down voting should just be removed. It does nothing, means nothing and only causes people to bitch. It’s annoying.
I question the sanity of anyone who gives even half a fuck about fake internet points.
It does nothing
It helps sort content for visibility. Unless you browse Lemmy ONLY by new, you’re benefiting from the voting system. That includes posts AND comments
I’ve had posts with hundreds of upvotes and one or two downvotes. It’s interesting to contact the downvoters via PM. Not in an accusatory tone but with curiosity.
You too!?
Downvotes aren’t that big of a deal my friend.
You can discover who is doing it with Lemvotes
But no, you can’t block them. Here in the real world (as opposed to the dystopian centralized platforms that have largely supplanted public discourse), it is not possible to isolate a specific individual and deny them access to information provided freely to the rest of the general public.
Should their public engagement rise to the level of harassment, there are legal options you can take to compel their restraint. But downvoting everything you do does not rise to such a level.
Just search the votes and block them
OP is asking how to prevent abusers from seeing OPs content.
“Blocking” the abuser prevents OP from seeing the abuser’s content. “Blocking” does not prevent the abuser from seeing and interacting with OP’s content.
“Blocking” does not achieve OP’s objective.
If they gather enough evidence, im sure instance mods could block the abuser’s accounts
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Blocking a user only stops you from seeing them, not the other way around. They can still interact with your posts.
A few negative votes don’t affect you in real life, do they?
If it bothers you that much, make an account on an instance that doesn’t have downvotes.
That won’t help when you’re making comments on instances that have downvotes enabled…
They won’t show up for the account-holder though. Out of sight, out of mind.
I highly recommend going into settings and hiding downvotes from yourself. Stick to dealing with the people who at least bother to engage in written form.
Downvoting is lazy and adds zero value. It’s pure masochism to let yourself get even a tiny bit annoyed just because some rando on the other side of the world spent 0.5 seconds clicking a down arrow on your comment - which they probably didn’t even read to the end.
I’m going to say - get over it.
This is not Reddit, where downvoting would actually prevent you from posting.
This is the Fediverse, where, you can keep going. Who gives a fuck?
The whinier you are about being downvoted, the more I think you deserve it. Just like anyone who I’ve come across who has amassed a lot of upvotes, turned out to be the biggest assholes I’ve come across.
I had a Reddit account get to the special place for people who got over 100,000 upvotes. The sub was full of assholes.
Also I’m an asshole so you’re theory checks out.
I remembered being randomly gilded and you got to go into that special subreddit for gilded users. Same deal.
Yeah I never had to pay for Reddit because I got gold for my comments.
Which were normally something sarcastic.
It’s kinda like the algorithm for social media. What gets engagement? Bad shit.
So if you get a group together who is good at that… you’re kinda surrounded by broken people lol
The whinier you are about being downvoted, the more I think you deserve it.
I would argue that his massive history and modlogs of him being a shitty person with inflammatory comments and toxic takes are why he deserves it. It should be obvious that after two years of mod corrective actions for egregious behavior he’s not going to change.
Him doing the “oh, woe is me” act here feels pretty hollow.
Yes clearly these downvotes are his personal bot brigade and not people just reacting to him being a dick
How could OP not have seen this coming?
Most of these look more like mods power tripping because he said something they didn’t like than anything.
Who cares
My gang stalkers can tongue my anus via the down arrow below.
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Don’t tell me what to do!
To prove you wrong I down voted this post and I don’t remember any interactions with you in the past.
Exellent resource! I look forward to terminating and easing the destruction of some of my own hanger-onners in due time
