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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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@pollodiabolo, it's interesting that whenever you post, you get boosts from the same set of accounts that downvote every other thread that trends towards the top. And all this happens roughly within a 10 minute stretch! Incidentally, this happens when those other accounts post too! How strange amirite? Wonder if there's an explanation?
@journalism_died @ishitwhite @muftiboy @kilkennygriffin and way more than I can tag here
EDIT: A few more - @jeremyfurzen @riseupagainstthem @ruse-of-metacarpi @johnson_waters @cazzodicristo @at-fieldu
I suspect a bunch more just to be clear, this is not a comprehensive list. But mentioned accounts are beyond a reasonable doubt either the same person or even if they are different people (very low chance) they are collectively vote manipulating.
It's nice to know some of the posts I've seen those accounts downvoted aren't by people who're really downvoting what the content is about.
Nice catch. With upvotes and downvotes being public manipulation is much more difficul
How can you see who's voting?
I'm pretty sute the admins can see all the actions on the instance. This reporting is valuable as fuck to spot manipulation
Edit: replied to wrong post..
Shill op?
OP tryna karma farm by boosting the fuck out of their posts when they're new posts (from any account), so that they make it near the top of the hot section and then they downvote the top few posts so that theirs gets pushed even further, seen them doing it a bunch of times. What a loser lmao.
"Karma farming" isn't even possible on Lemmy. There's literally no total of up- and downvotes displayed anywhere. And having a meme artificially pushed to the top without reason seems to be nonsensical to me.
Someone coming from reddit that doesn't understand how lemmy works? Will it be a self correcting problem once they realize there's absolutely nothing to be gained by shilling posts? Will be interesting to see how this plays out. On a related note, does anyone know if you block a user are their votes still included in the totals you see for posts and comments?
Kbin has karma, OP is posting from kbin to lemmy