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Definitely a personal grudge. It was against someone who the downvoter was convinced is an alt of mine (it's not).
Several months ago, I mentioned how weird it was for someone to have an ai girlfriend in general, not calling anyone out directly. One particular dude stalked me for months over that comment, and serial downvoted everything I did.
Then he put his sights on someone else (the subject of the scenario in OP's example), wrongly thinking it was me, and started stalking and harassing them, and calling them my name. Literally saying, "I know you're Universal Monk!" Over and over. Again, the person he thought was an alt of me, isn't me. I don't have any alt names. I just use my Universal Monk name on any instance I use.
As soon as it was mentioned that the serial downvoter guy may be involved in sending the Nicole fediverse chick spam (many of the same addys, obsession, etc), the downvoter deleted his account.
I have no idea if he was involved in the nicole spam, but the M.O. of revenge and obsession definitely fit the profile for both the incidents. Also pretty suspicious that the minute someone mentioned he may be involved in Nicole spam, he bailed and deleted his main account and a lot of his alt accounts. lol
Oh wow, that is indeed pretty telling lol. Sounds like a pretty troubled and unhappy person, I hope they find peace (and stop harassing others, that's unacceptable regardless...).
What’s also funny is that now that people are finally talking about “serial downvoters” being a problem—and now that more users can actually see who’s doing the downvoting—a lot of those serial downvoters have suddenly stopped.
Personally, I’ve noticed a huge difference. For a long time, it didn’t matter what I posted—no matter the subject, I’d get flooded with downvotes almost instantly. That’s just stopped.
Now the voting feels way more natural and organic—based on content, not just someone hating me and hitting downvote the second they see my name.
That's definitely an improvement, I'd hate to see Lemmy get co-opted, but I guess it'll happen in various ways if it gets big enough. One concerning trend I think I've noticed is bad faith arguments (trolling, in a word) against leftist talking points. Could just be sincere disagreement and I'm chasing ghosts, but I've seen some stuff that looks REAL fishy.
Agreed. But another problem is that some people think anyone who disagrees with them is a troll.
Just today, I got banned from two communities. The reason? According to the mod: “known zero-sum narcissistic troll/spam user.” Which is wild, because I’ve barely posted in either place. I never said anything political or controversial as far as I can tell—and none of my comments were even removed.
And I think the last time I posted there was a few weeks ago?! LMAO.
The only thing I can figure is that some mod or admin saw me posting elsewhere, remembered they hated me for being a Socialist, and made up a reason to ban me. Totally random. Totally ok, their community. Their rules. Just like my community, my rules (as in I ban serial downoters).
No real loss—I rarely comment there anyway, and apparently nothing I said was bad enough to delete. Still, banned.
Lemmy’s a strange place. The echo-chamber mentality might be what kills it in the end though. If it turns into Reddit 2.0, what’s the point? And I am adding to the echo chamber by banning serial downvoters. So, meh...
I love Lemmy, but I can totally see it withering if it becomes harder to navigate and more toxic than Reddit. That said, I refuse to be bullied off the platform. I’ll be here until the servers go dark.
But I'm on PieFed, and really loving that platform too. So no big loss if Lemmy goes away, because I'm already on the Lemmy replacement. :)