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We are seeing some vote manipulation (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We had a couple of reports today of vote manipulation happening in the Australia community. After investigating, I'm seeing a trend:

https://aussie.zone/post/21203876
https://aussie.zone/post/21124048
https://aussie.zone/post/21194319
https://aussie.zone/post/21130833

The votes in all these posts look like this. In this example, only two of the downvotes look legitimate. The rest are coming from three instances that don't appear to be real Lemmy sites. One of them doesn't even resolve.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Wait, mods can see which member downvotes a post?

[–] AwesomeLowlander 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Anybody can see it. The info is very lightly hidden, and available to anybody with an ounce of interest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Full disclosure: I honestly thought everyone could. 😆

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mods can see all votes in communities that they mod, up and down.

Admins can (I believe) see all votes, full stop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Admins can (I believe) see all votes, full stop

This is correct, with the caveat that the votes must have federated with the admin's instance (so other instances need a user to be subscribed to the community in question, and votes can take time to flow through).