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Comment on Vote manipulation by rodneyck@lemmy.world

The community (Lemmy Shitpost) has already decided to ban this tool going forward. The admin DM’d me. This should be banned by Lemmy World as a whole.

How can a community mod ban that wool? It uses federation information, so only an admin defederating the instance used by the tool would prevent the tool from working.

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rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I have no idea how the admin tools work, so asking the wrong person. He told me they ‘plan to’ ban it, didn’t say how…or when. I have already escalated the issue, now that go$fskyourself and his bullying gang have shown themselves over this incident, to the actually lemmy programmers. They were already aware of this outside tool, and it didn’t sound like they were happy about it, but left the issue dangling. I have re-opened it showing the abuse from go$fsckyourself and how it can harm others, so we will see what can be done.

I assume one can create a community and gain admin tools? If that is true, can you then use that tool to also see up/down votes by users outside your own community? If so, that would be another easy exploit.

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- Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  So that’s what I meant, this tool cannot be blocked at the community level, which was what you were saying above.
  
  Votes on Lemmy are public by nature, they are just hidden to the general user but it’s very easy to show them.
  
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  - rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Gotcha, well that is unfortunate, as it is obviously being used by some, go$fsckyourself, for exploit.
    
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    Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I am not following this whole thing very closely to be honest.
    
    People in general should just be aware that votes are almost public, and behave accordingly.
    
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gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s most likely that it’s just another lie. That’s the most likely answer considering this user’s history.

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moseschrute@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I assume that tool is using a collection of existing accounts to cast the votes? If so, can you just identify which accounts those are and report them to whatever server they are hosted on? I didn’t read the whole thread so maybe I’m missing some context.

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- Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s basically using the tool owner instance to show upvotes and downvotes (admins always see them as their instance needs that information to count votes accurately)
  
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