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wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The only time I check is to try and catch if I’m being targeted by someone mass down voting me or using alts to do so. Only when I’m seeing weird stuff like every one of my comments for a while getting at least one downvote, or seeing my comments deep in a one on one conversation on an otherwise dead thread getting multiple downvotes (no one’s going to even see those except me and who I’m talking to).

Unfortunately, this has been a “you’re only paranoid if they aren’t out to get you” situation. Most give up after a day or two and I just block and move on, but it was a bit common for a few months.

I caught one of the “respected” members of my instance pulling that shit, a person who moderates multiple comms, downvoting me using their alts over multiple instances.

They accused me of doxxing them (they were actually around that time). Now I have a bunch of bans in my modlog saying that I used a slur, when I was quoting the name of an ancient meme and I edited the word out long before they did the bans.

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Aqivex@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

(no one’s going to even see those except me and who I’m talking to).

Untrue. Even one on one’s in a public medium, are public. Lurkers have every right to opine on takes as they see fit, reply or platform-granted reaction tools both. Whether they catch the comments fresh or later when you consider it a “dead thread”.

I personally do it all the time, upvote or downvote.

There’s only so many hours in a day and Fediverse content isn’t so plentiful that it makes sense to mark discussions that are still near the top of a comms feed as “dead” to me.

That’s before we even get into how easy it is to accidentally hit the buttons in a lot of Lemmy client apps.

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- wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’m well aware. I’m not talking about those situations. I’m talking ~20 comments deep on a thread that has seen no other action for multiple days. And I’m not talking about it just getting one downvote between when I reply from people happening to find it.
  
  And even then, I just check. I’m not harassing people, I’m not jumping to immediately blocking. I’m just looking to see if it is something weird going on. If there is, I block.
  
  And I haven’t done any of this since last year. No need.
  
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snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Just letting you know that I down voted this comment so you don’t need to waste the time looking up who did it.

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- wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What? Ok?
  
  This isn’t a comment on a sub thread of a sub thread of an otherwise long dead thread jumping from no downvotes to -3 in like a single day (between the time I made my comment and the time I’m responding to the reply). I’m not actively watching this stuff and I think you’ve misunderstood what I’m talking about.
  
  Now if you’re going to check my profile page over the next few days to a week? Then I might notice the downvotes and look, but I honestly haven’t noticed anything like that or checked votes against my comments since the event I mentioned in my last comment with that powermod, which was sometime last year.
  
  Downvotes on a comment like mine, offering a semi-reasonable explanation for disliked behavior, are entirely expected. Hell, downvotes an any comment expressing an opinion.
  
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