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My comments are suddenly all being mass downvoted. Looking for some help. (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 weeks ago* by to c/support@lemmy.world
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Hello. I've found that rather suddenly, all of my comments within the past week have exactly 3 downvotes. These are even on totally unassuming comments, like a comment I posted saying that French is used in a lot of African countries.

I believe it might be possible that I am suddenly being harassed be a user with multiple accounts or something.

Looking for some guidance.

Thanks all.

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[–] 13 points 4 weeks ago (11 children)

I'm not sure there's much you could do except report them to the admins of their respective instances for vote manipulation.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    Is voting “vote manipulation” though?

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    It is when you use multiple accounts to vote multiple times on the same content.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Agreed - I guess I just interpreted it as having pissed off multiple people.

    But if all three votes come at the same time (or same IP assuming mods/mod log have that info) that would be a pretty big clue.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (2 children)

    It occurred to a huge number of comments suddenly at 3:05-3:30am-ish. And then another user today just now. This is what it looks like for all of the comments.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Do you happen to know how I can send a message to someone on the fediverse without navigating to their profile? I'm a bit slow but I can't seem to figure it out. When I go to the instance in question to figure out who the admin is, I can't message them because I am not logged in on that instance. Because my account is on lemmy.world. I tried searching their name in the post/comment search feature, but they don't seem to always pop up that way.

    There is a "messages" tab where I can view messages that I have sent and received, but I can't figure out how to just send a new message to a user there without clicking on their profile first.

    Thanks for your help. I guess I wasn't expecting that to be confusing unless I'm missing how to do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    You should be able to navigate to their profile from your own instance and hit the button to send a DM to them. AFAIK there's no place to just type in the user's account name and send them a DM without using that button unless using an app that has that functionality.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I guess that's my difficulty. I don't how to navigate to their profile from my instance. I only know how to go to their instance to find their profile.

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