Vote manipulation by a single lemmy.world account
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
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.
Wow, great tool!
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.
Moderator or administrator?
Also, if its as simple as connecting to the fediverse to expose these data, it seems weird to keep it hidden.
Just a mod, afaik. I am not an admin of any instance, but I do mod a few comms. But your instance also has to federate that data and to do that has to be on whatever version that added it (I am not sure what version did this tho). If your instance runs some older version of Lenny, it has nothing to show.
I actually find it weird that it's not hidden from the public, since that's unusual. Obviously everything of this nature is tracked (it has to be to work) but it's usually something only an operator of the thing would have access to.
I'm not sure where I sit on it. On one hand, it's nice to be able to have proof of vote manipulation and not just have to take a mod/admin's word for it, but on the other it could easily lead to abuse/harassment.
Did you build the bot?
Are you sure you know what you are seeing? Because its pretty obvious that you dont.
The bot didn't take action until after this post was up. The bot also cites this thread as the justification for the action. Its obviously scripted to just do whatever a mod/ admin tells them to do.
Again. No credible evidence of vote manipulation has been presented.
Just one user from a single user instance providing their conjecture, and some mod acting on that conjecture.
Look, apparently the deletion of my comment didn't federate quick with enough. I saw your other comments and realized I have no interest in engaging with you, and the comment you just made is why.
So, pretend I'm saying whatever it takes to end the conversation here, because I tried to undo starting it.
Whatever dude. The hot took action based on this post, not on evidence of suspicious activity.