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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The bots that I have heard of - I think it was called Santa or some such? - all require much more than a single downvote.

I dunno, if someone followed me around and downvoted half the stuff that I ever posted, I might make a bot to block them too. The key there is the severity of the "offense".

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There was at least one guy on here that basically didn't have weights to his script so someone seeing a post for the first time on All had a very high chance of being seen as a "serial downvoter" from a single negative interaction without a single positive interaction to counter it. It was quite funny but I would hope they fixed that by now.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hi! I'm the guy.

It wasn't just a single downvote, but that is a factor be to taken into account, the downvoting account gets examined and if it's only downvoting everything, or is used for strategic voting, or is actually more then a single downvote that establishes a pattern.. they would get removed from the community for being a bad fit

My full philosophy https://hackertalks.com/post/13884733

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, the admin of Midwest.Social? That was hilarious. A bunch of communities migrated off of that instance, treating it like Lemmy.ml-lite, and I mostly forgot about it:-D.

And it looks like the Santabot project died off, or at least the community migrated without warning or something: !santabot@slrpnk.net.