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Why is vote "fuzzing" so extreme? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been noticing the number of upvotes on posts fluctuate wildly...from 12, to 350, to 150. Pretty wild swings. I know fuzzing is needed to combat bots, but I had thought it was more like at the few % level, not orders of magnitude...

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I doubt there’s any deliberate vote fuzzing here—reddit did that to prevent karma-farming bots from figuring out if they were being detected and blocked, but with no permanent karma, that shouldn’t be an issue here.

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023

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