Comment on Vote manipulation by rodneyck@lemmy.world
rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoI 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.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Gotcha, well that is unfortunate, as it is obviously being used by some, go$fsckyourself, for exploit.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, you need to read the whole story to see how they are abusing those votes, gang behavior, swarming, by someone down-voting them, using this outside tool. I think there are other exploits as well.