For awhile it was single downvotes, but it seems that moved up to 2-3 on each comment. Even the most benign stuff gets hit, the pattern is clear.

Can I find this person and block them from seeing my posts? Never really delved into how lemmy works.

Probably doesn't matter much because after awhile the forget and leave me alone for a bit.

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[–] 79 points 9 months ago (20 children)

I fed a couple of your comments into lemvotes and found out who it was pretty easily. I imagine this is a bannable offense somewhere?

https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432178
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/21432359

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

    Looks like a normal short term lemmy fight, someone didn't like what they said in a thread and opened their history and downvoted everything on the first screen. Going back 3 days and the downvotes stop.

    lemmy.world appears to be their main account, this seems to be the post that triggered them do do their downvoting spree: https://lemmy.world/post/41260627

    Looks like the sock puppet master was angry for about 20 minutes, and got tired of manually downvoting. Still pretty terrible vote manipulation making lemmy a hostile place.

    @shalafi@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago

    I think on the original offending post, OP made some somewhat inflammatory comments about ADHD and Autism further down. I imagine the downvoter felt personally hurt by these comments, hence the temporary spree, driven mostly by emotion. I don’t agree with the vote manipulation but not knowing their full story I would caution against people coming across this and retaliating against this person. It seems like it was just a short response and hopefully they have had a chance to cool off now.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's 2 years old, as opposed to the sock puppet ones which are 4 months old. It's voting the same way as the other 3 also. I guess it doesn't really matter which is the main, just thought I'd add it regardless since it wasn't mentioned.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I've looked at the voting patterns and I can't establish the link you mentioned, the falsewhite accounts are obviously alts/sockpuppets of each other, that is all I can say

    43 downvotes across 2 minutes but at a 4 hours earlier then the other downvoting falsewhite accounts.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    All targeting the same person as the other 3 accounts, 4 hours apart? That's quite a coincidence if it's not the same person. My guess is they first went through with their main account, then decided to do the same later with their other accounts. Either way, it's the exact same behavior as the others, so it's worth calling out in the exact same way.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Surprised the offender has a db0 account...

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

    For anyone else wondering:

    Divisions by zero lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Be Weird, Download a Car, Generate Art, Screw Copyrights, Do Maths

    Communities about Anarchism, Generative Al, Copylefts, Neurodivergence, Filesharing, and Free Software. (And Math!) Follow the Anarchist Code of Conduct and honor the Disengage Rule. Don't be shitty to each other. Keep it SFW. Obey the spirit of The Golden Rules. Fuck around and find out.

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  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    No matter what you post, someone will downvote it. It simply just doesn't matter

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I think OP is right to be concerned, because while we don't have karma like reddit (thank god), supposing someome was browsing old posts in a comm[unity] they might utilise the "Top of all time" filter or even the "most controversial of all time" filter - if our OP here makes a particularly useful post, e.g about a tech support issue - then I'm pretty sure having extra downvotes will actually reduce the reach and visibility of the post, using these filters.

    Also in this case it was just useful because it exposes someone acting in bad faith on the fed.

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    [–] 30 points 9 months ago

    Blocking a user only stops you from seeing them, not the other way around. They can still interact with your posts.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    Downvotes aren't that big of a deal my friend.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    You can discover who is doing it with Lemvotes

    But no, you can't block them. Here in the real world (as opposed to the dystopian centralized platforms that have largely supplanted public discourse), it is not possible to isolate a specific individual and deny them access to information provided freely to the rest of the general public.

    Should their public engagement rise to the level of harassment, there are legal options you can take to compel their restraint. But downvoting everything you do does not rise to such a level.

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    [–] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (19 children)

    Is it because of that time you were defending pedophilia and regurgitating MAP talking points?

    EDIT: or maybe it's the constant repulsive content that has resulted in pages, and pages, and pages of mod actions for years? For things such as: racism, transphobia, actual antisemitism, advocating violence, racism again, and look...

    pedophile apologia again...

    Man... I wonder why people would downvote you..... it's a a real headscratcher.

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  • [+] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    There were a few pedo defenders in that thread (see the other user that got fully banned for doubling down over and over again). I tagged the profiles making excuses for pedos which is why I knew who OP was (roughly).

    Just kinda feel like people who try to equate pedophiles as part of the queer community are probably shitty people. And probably have shitty takes.... and looks like they have a lot of shitty takes. So much that theyre whining about getting downvoted.

    I mean, Jesus, just look at their modlog... banned for pedo apologia, actual antisemitism, civility, etc etc etc. Pages of mod actions....

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    I'm not seeing that, pedophilia is a condition and the user was responding in earnest to a comment asking "why?". I personally would not conflate this with defending child molesters

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    [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    So you're saying falseWhite and krimsom are a stalker!
    Very sad and pathetic.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    falseWhite mass downvotes from accounts on at least three instances that I've seen. There are several others that I've noticed, but it hasn't bothered me enough to look into it beyond that. I figure eventually these accounts will get banned for something or other, and it isn't worth that much time or space in my head.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    FalseWhite is a serial vote manipulator, so... Yeah. Dude's not even trying to hide; all the accounts they use to vote multiple times on posts use the same exact name.

    Though, OP is also a pedophile/defender of pedophiles, so I mean... They're gonna get downvoted by anyone who knows who they are just for that. 🤷‍♂️

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    [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    With all the cranks on here, downvotes are a sign of doing something right. Some instances hide downvotes entirely. Others offer settings to not show them.

    Not sure blocking them affects the downvote count shown to you.

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    [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If it bothers you that much, make an account on an instance that doesn't have downvotes.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    To prove you wrong I down voted this post and I don't remember any interactions with you in the past.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I highly recommend going into settings and hiding downvotes from yourself. Stick to dealing with the people who at least bother to engage in written form.

    Downvoting is lazy and adds zero value. It's pure masochism to let yourself get even a tiny bit annoyed just because some rando on the other side of the world spent 0.5 seconds clicking a down arrow on your comment - which they probably didn't even read to the end.

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