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Anyone else had problems with downvoting bots? (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jballs to c/main

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Earlier today I made a comment that someone must have found controversial, because I noticed that all of my posts and most of my comments made in the last month have received about a dozen downvotes each, all happening today. Has anyone experienced anything similar and is there anything that can be done to combat that sort of thing from happening? I think that reddit used to only shadow downvote when voting from a user's profile. I'm assuming Lemmy isn't that advanced yet.

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[–] jballs 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting, but doesn't sound quite like the same issue I had. Mine was literally a dump of downvotes that hit all my past comments and posts (done within the last month) all delivered instantly. Or at least over the course of an hour or so.

It definitely was a one time event where a pissed off user either manually logged into multiple alts to downvote my stuff from my profile page - or used a bot. I tend to think it was the former, because they were lazy and didn't do every comment/post I had, just stuff from the last month. Then again, it could have been a shitty bot that only did the first page of results.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, you’re getting downvoted on everything, not just posts on particular instances?

But yes, I need to dig into the vote activity metadata - it’s just difficult (impossible?) to do that from Memmy, and I won’t be in a spot to actually check those details until the weekend.

Tangentially, apart from the immediate effect of pushing my comments down, this sort of targeted downvoting is kinda funny to me, because it indicate that whoever is doing it doesn’t really understand how the lemmy ecosystem works (specifically, that karma is more or less irrelevant), despite whatever skill they might have in scripting.