We are seeing some vote manipulation (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 week 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] 3 points 1 week ago

I don't take fake internet points seriously! Who would do that!

I've barely even noticed that both the people who have replied to my comment have a higher upvote total than me.

Nope, i don't care at all!

Not on iota!

Okay, maybe a little.. /j :p

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I browse by new so most posts I see are 1-5 votes either way.

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