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.
Every small-to-medium sized community trying to build will have a handful of users like this. I managed to discover the serial downvoters on my old lemm.ee comm and when I banned them (about 4 of them?) it had a huge impact. They didn't all downvote /everything/ but they downvoted a lot of things, and no contribution. And if they got in early, they could sink new threads.
Made a huge difference.
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.
Wait, we did? I'm a mod and had no idea I could see peoples' votes. How do I do that? I say, as I probably will never use it until I start seeing my communities consistently getting downvotes on inoffensive posts that have no misinformation and are clearly on topic.
Vertical dots menu - View votes
Hey you are right, thank you!
For any other mods unaware of this feature, it only works on posts in communities you mod.
I'm not a mod but that's my understanding yes. An actual mod could probably help you, I guess ask for help in a fediverse/Lemmy support community?
Vertical dots menu - View votes
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.
But if your a community moderator, you can use this tool to identify the bad actors and uninvite them from the party.
You can already see votes directly in the Lemmy UI as a mod
Some instances have defederated from Lemvotes—including lemmy.ml—which blocks its functionality. Past polls have shown that most Lemmy users do not want votes to be visible, so we will continue do what we can to keep them that way.
If you suspect vote manipulation, I suggest reporting the post(s)/comment(s) accordingly, and let the mods & admins handle them; we can see the votes already, without external tools like Lemvotes.
Post up votes: 96k
Post down votes: 171
Comment up votes: 91k
Comment down votes: 162
I'm a pretty easy guy to please.
That is an insane number of upvotes
Damn i should vote more
Total post upvotes: 722
Total post downvotes: 4
Total comment upvotes: 1699
Total comment downvotes: 34
Blaze maybe this should go into the sidebar?
Added at the end of the resources
Dev here, just a heads up that the blog post is outdated
Thanks! Should we remove it, and just leave the access to the website?
Yeah I recommend removing it, as the technical part of it is not relevant anymore. You can add a new one if I get around to writing it.
I've been percieved
Gotta hate more
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