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What can be done about downvote brigading / voting abuse (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by x4740N@lemm.ee to c/support@lemm.ee

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What options do we have to deal with suspected downvote brigading or voting abuse on lemmy and what do we do to report it

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Just curious on what makes it “abuse” over just being posts people don’t like?

Some instances have downvotes turned off entirely

Some communities ban you just for a downvote

edit a brief scroll of your post history, the only posts with semi equal up and down votes seem appropriate - such as posting manga to skyrim and asking for a mod

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some instances have downvotes turned off entirely

From what I can tell, this only prevents users native to that instance from downvoting anything. It doesn't prevent anyone else from downvoting posts on the given instance.

My lemmynsfw profile can't downvote anything, but my other profile that can see lemmynsfw posts can downvote them.

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 3 months ago

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[–] x4740N@lemm.ee -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't posting manga to skyrim, I was just asking for mod outfit suggestions to match the outfit in the manga and the context provided in the post is pretty obvious that I wasn't just posting manga to skyrim mods

and I don't know what you mean by asking for a mod because I don't recall asking for a mod

And may I ask why you decided to go through my post history because it has nothing to do with this post

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I assumed you felt you were having problems with your posts being downvoted regularly. Besides, your profile is completely public. Its fair game.

What can be done about downvote brigades

Assumption: you feel your posts are being brigaded. You provided zero other context.

You absolutely did ask for a mod. Literally in the title of your post

https://lemm.ee/post/38898564

outfit mod is a mod. Not sure why you’re claiming an outfit mod isn’t a mod

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and before you blame me. I have not voted on your posts or comments.

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You didn’t even answer the question I asked on whether the downvotes are “valid” because people dont want the posts

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

I thought you where talking about mods as in moderators and not modifications