Submitted 1 month ago by shalafi@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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.
No matter what you post, someone will downvote it. It simply just doesn’t matter
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.
But all of this does nothing about the value, or quality, of OP’s posts.
It tells only about the BULLSHIT VALUE of things like a “Top of all time” filter or terms like “controversial”.
Up/down voting should just be removed. It does nothing, means nothing and only causes people to bitch. It’s annoying.
I question the sanity of anyone who gives even half a fuck about fake internet points.
I’ve had posts with hundreds of upvotes and one or two downvotes. It’s interesting to contact the downvoters via PM. Not in an accusatory tone but with curiosity.
Is it because of that time you were defending pedophilia and regurgitating MAP talking points?
Nothing about that comments comes across as defending it. Also, pedophilia is not synonymous with sexual abuse.
I mean it’s a shitty take and really doesn’t evidence good understanding of the topic (I used to work forensic psych and have met a LOT of pedophiles) but as far as shitty internet takes go it’s meh at most and wild to me that you went to the effort to dig that out from two weeks ago for this discussion.
I’ll ask you the same, do you believe people choose their attractions? Be very careful in your answer. If you say yes, then LGBT is a choice.
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’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
I have no clue what MAP is, but can you point to the words that hurt you?
We don’t get to choose who and what we are attracted to. 🤷🏻♂️ However, that does not absolve one of immoral actions.
Or do you believe attraction is a choice? You believe people have a choice to be gay or trans? You can’t have it both ways. Pick. One.
You believe people have a choice to be gay or trans?
From a policy and human rights point of view, it’s irrelevant whether it’s a choice or predetermined.
Blocking a user only stops you from seeing them, not the other way around. They can still interact with your posts.
Downvotes aren’t that big of a deal my friend.
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.
Just search the votes and block them
OP is asking how to prevent abusers from seeing OPs content.
“Blocking” the abuser prevents OP from seeing the abuser’s content. “Blocking” does not prevent the abuser from seeing and interacting with OP’s content.
“Blocking” does not achieve OP’s objective.
If they gather enough evidence, im sure instance mods could block the abuser’s accounts
I'm going to say - get over it.
This is not Reddit, where downvoting would actually prevent you from posting.
This is the Fediverse, where, you can keep going. Who gives a fuck?
The whinier you are about being downvoted, the more I think you deserve it.
I would argue that his massive history and modlogs of him being a shitty person with inflammatory comments and toxic takes are why he deserves it. It should be obvious that after two years of mod corrective actions for egregious behavior he’s not going to change.
Yes clearly these downvotes are his personal bot brigade and not people just reacting to him being a dick
How could OP not have seen this coming?
Most of these look more like mods power tripping because he said something they didn’t like than anything.
I had a Reddit account get to the special place for people who got over 100,000 upvotes. The sub was full of assholes.
Also I’m an asshole so you’re theory checks out.
I remembered being randomly gilded and you got to go into that special subreddit for gilded users. Same deal.
So you’re saying falseWhite and krimsom are a stalker!
FalseWhite is a serial vote manipulator, so… Yeah.
Yeah..uh…nice modlog, OP…
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.
careful or jordanlund will silence you for brigading.
If it bothers you that much, make an account on an instance that doesn’t have downvotes.
That won't help when you're making comments on instances that have downvotes enabled...
They won’t show up for the account-holder though. Out of site, out of mind.
Who cares
To prove you wrong I down voted this post and I don’t remember any interactions with you in the past.
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.
A few negative votes don’t affect you in real life, do they?
You too!?
Exellent resource! I look forward to terminating and easing the destruction of some of my own hanger-onners in due time
Down vote me.
CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 1 month ago
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
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Neat! Don’t think I have the energy to do much about it, but that’s a great site, thank you very much!
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Lemvotes is a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be depressing.
Unrefined@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
Surprised the offender has a db0 account…
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 1 month ago
For anyone else wondering:
Divisions by zero lemmy.dbzer0.com