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Original introduction - https://lemmy.world/post/28787892
https://blog.gregtech.eu/posts/lemvotes/
I think this is great tool to identify vote manipulation accounts.
Thanks @[email protected] for making me aware of this.
And thank you @[email protected] for developing it.
Just be aware it lists all downvotes first
Oh wow. Just looked at the votes of a harmless happy post that had lots of upvotes and a few downvotes. With this tool, I was able to figure out who was that one downvoter. Well, then I dug a bit deeper, and found out that this user seems to be a serial downvoter. Every day, there's a proper barrage of downvotes directed at pretty much anything and everything.
I have very mixed feelings about this discovery. Kinda nice to know all this, but it certainly didn't make me happier.
It's a nice tool for admins and mods, but then again they already pretty much had access to this information. I've always believed votes are obscured for good reason, and knowing how people vote on your posts and comments is only going to bring about negative emotions.
Mods and admins need to know, but everyone else will just find sadness in this kind of data. I asked, but clearly wasn’t ready to hear the answer. Well, now I know where some of those seemingly random downvotes come from.