• Ace T'KenEnglish
    21•2 months ago

    WOW. Community mods can now see votes and I can now verify things I’ve been suspecting for a long time. There’s a ton of non-posting users going into the community and downvoting every topic in it.

    Does anyone know how we can ban someone from a community for vote manipulation if they’ve never posted there?

    • ShadowOPMEnglish
      12•2 months ago

      I’m not sure if there’s a way. Blaze has the answer as usual.

      Can you link me to a few of those posts out of my own curiosity though?

      • Ace T'KenEnglish
        8•2 months ago

        Sure! So, for example, our current weekly topic and this new topic by a user have been downvoted by user named @Pfeffy@lemmy.world. Looking around, there’s a few others within they’ve downvoted as well with no upvotes anywhere. Checking the modlog shows they’ve been banned from other communities for vote manipulation as well (among other things). They don’t need to be able to do this.

        Checking older posts, I see that someone named @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca had gone in and downvoted dozens of things with no upvotes. Nearly every topic we had at the time, in fact (or at least as many as I looked at). This is not only against community rules, but it’s a pretty shit thing to do.

        We’ve also got old blank accounts like @arnacre@lemmy.world and @lanky@feddit.nl with zero posts or anything of any kind downvoting. They’re not contributing anything anywhere, so they don’t need to be there at all.

        That’s just a few examples, but there’s more.

      • Ace T'KenEnglish
        8•2 months ago

        Ooh, would you happen to know whereabouts? I can’t seem to locate it. Sorry…

        • m-p{3}MEnglish
          9•2 months ago

          You can go at https://tess.lemmy.ca/c/actual_discussion@lemmy.ca/settings/moderation then manually enter a user.

      • @ninthant@lemmy.caEnglish
        3•2 months ago

        Ok I’m pretty new to Lemmy in general but I just discovered Tesseract from this comment and it’s so good. Thank you.

          • @ninthant@lemmy.caEnglish
            2•2 months ago

            I’m unfortunately too subconsciously arrogant to think I need to read the docs before starting to use something. “I’m not some newb who needs their hands held, I’m an expert user and I’m sure I can figure it out”

            But thank you! Now that I’m enjoying Lemmy and being part of these communities I owe it to myself to revisit this attitude and read it over now.

            Cheers