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Under a toot announcing that firefox now supports CHIPS (Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State) (lemmy.zip)
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Picture of a official mastodon firefox account "favoriting" a comment saying "crazy as soon as mozilla does something good nobody is here"
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[–] -2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

As I said, certainly possible, I was just surprised by the distribution over time, not the distribution of vote type.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Just so you know, some of us actually read through a chain of comments first, trying to get the full argument before making judgements, and then go back and upvote and downvote all the comments quickly in a row. So, that might seem like a bot doing it at the same time, but its just someone batch voting after reading.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    To make it clear what I am talking about - I would expect any voting distribution for 16 votes to be at least semi-random on a controversial comment, in example such as this:

    However, the distribution as it occurred looked like this on the first 16 votes:

    A controversial comment will have such a ratio, but any comment controversial or not will almost never have this kind of distribution unless there are multiple accounts waiting for vote up events to occur so that they can send a vote down.

    I can believe this happening 2, 3, even 4 times by chance, but not 8 times.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I'm entirely aware, I'm specifically referencing my top level comment which at the time had no replies.

    Additionally, what you are describing does not explain both a vote up and vote down, occurring at the same time 8 times consecutively, so I'm not quite sure I understand what your point is as what actions occurred prior to hitting the button doesn't enter into what I'm describing as far as I can determine.

    Even if people read a thread before scrolling back up and hitting the up or down button, them hitting that button at the same time as someone else hitting the opposing button 8 times in a row within a few moments of each other is still a statistical anomaly.

    See my other comment in which I graphed what I am talking about in order to better explain myself.

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