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Mass Organized Downvoting (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is anyone else being massively downvoted on every comment? I noticed this started happening after the DDOS attacks on lemmy.world. If you check my profile, you'll see what I'm talking about. Almost as soon as I post a comment it's at -10, etc.

Have I pissed off someone, or is it a possible bot attack? I try to keep most of my comments cordial, which is why this is confusing me. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Activity on your account certainly seems unusual. This post is getting 1 downvote a minute when I'm reading it, which is more engagement than usually happens on Lemmy, good or bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fortunately accounts are free and the points meaningless.

But, you could find out. Abandon this account for a time and come back. If the insta-downvotes start again then you know it's bots, if not then you get to laugh at the someone or someones that wasted all that time... Well they still wasted their time even to set up bots but you know what I mean.

You could also ignore or migrate. I don't think Lemmy is equipped to tackle this kind of trolling, except that accounts are free and the points meaningless. To me that's solution enough, YMMV on how attached you get to your account though.

Didn't mean that as a reply, just a comment, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The total point count on your profile may be meaningless, but votes on a comment/post absolutely have an effect within context. If you want to post to a community about something, the post may never get seen by many if it amasses a bunch of down votes. If you want to weigh in on a subject in a particular thread, a down voted opinion will be drown out by all the other comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting, you get alerts for replies on deleted comments, I deleted and reposted as a stand alone as that's what I originally intended to do.

I agree though, I think the correct solution for OP is migrate, and that's what they said they're going to do. Fortunately, accounts are free and the points meaningless.

I don't think ignoring is that bad a solution though. Rarely is Lemmy so active downvoted comments are relegated to the shadowrealm.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's extremely strange. Seems like I'm being targeted by bots. Useless internet points and all, but it's a bit alarming that I've been singled out this way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It might just be that your username is alphabetically near the start of the most popular instance.