You already have been banned from other communities for vote manipulation, and as I said this rapid level of voting activity is not normal for this community. Involving the Lemmy.world admins would not disprove it as VPNs can easily hide any shared IPs. And 1-2 minutes would be a reasonable time frame for switching VPN location, logging into an account, locating this and voting.
You already have been banned from other communities for vote manipulation
I don’t know which those are. I was banned over a year ago(?) by this carnivore-diet nutjob because I downvoted the posts in his propaganda communities for spreading provably harmful health disinformation, but that downvoting was expressly limited to my account.
And 1-2 minutes would be a reasonable time frame for switching VPN location, logging into an account, locating this and voting.
Oh, cool! That’s something I’d totally do *checks notes* approximately eight times over the course of 15 minutes. I can’t prove a negative here, but I like to think I respect myself more than wasting my life injecting bullshit upvotes into my comments. If I somehow decided my life had sunken to the pathetic depths of botting small social media communities, it would be to downvote unsubstantiated nonsense like this, not to inflate arguments that I think can stand on their own merits.
Edit: I’d like to add that my original comment has been up for ~40 minutes now. It’s 17:1 (possibly your downvote). While an initial high upvote ratio can psychologically influence people to upvote too, no amount of botting can control other people’s downvotes. Surely if I’d botted my comment, it’d be reflected in an influx of downvotes afterward because my “botted” ratio was completely artificial? Even just a few? Did you even check the other comment to see the rate it was being upvoted at as a control? I don’t really know why I’m arguing against this unfalsifiable claim, but this whole thing just seems ridiculous to me.
Just want to jump in and say how sad it is we can’t trust each other online having no way of knowing who is human. And our bastard governments seem to want to, once again, use any opportunity to make money from a problem and sell our digital ID to third parties to resolve the trust issue as if that would do fuck all good
You already have been banned from other communities for vote manipulation, and as I said this rapid level of voting activity is not normal for this community. Involving the Lemmy.world admins would not disprove it as VPNs can easily hide any shared IPs. And 1-2 minutes would be a reasonable time frame for switching VPN location, logging into an account, locating this and voting.
All things considered it is highly suspicious.
I don’t know which those are. I was banned over a year ago(?) by this carnivore-diet nutjob because I downvoted the posts in his propaganda communities for spreading provably harmful health disinformation, but that downvoting was expressly limited to my account.
Oh, cool! That’s something I’d totally do *checks notes* approximately eight times over the course of 15 minutes. I can’t prove a negative here, but I like to think I respect myself more than wasting my life injecting bullshit upvotes into my comments. If I somehow decided my life had sunken to the pathetic depths of botting small social media communities, it would be to downvote unsubstantiated nonsense like this, not to inflate arguments that I think can stand on their own merits.
Edit: I’d like to add that my original comment has been up for ~40 minutes now. It’s 17:1 (possibly your downvote). While an initial high upvote ratio can psychologically influence people to upvote too, no amount of botting can control other people’s downvotes. Surely if I’d botted my comment, it’d be reflected in an influx of downvotes afterward because my “botted” ratio was completely artificial? Even just a few? Did you even check the other comment to see the rate it was being upvoted at as a control? I don’t really know why I’m arguing against this unfalsifiable claim, but this whole thing just seems ridiculous to me.
Just want to jump in and say how sad it is we can’t trust each other online having no way of knowing who is human. And our bastard governments seem to want to, once again, use any opportunity to make money from a problem and sell our digital ID to third parties to resolve the trust issue as if that would do fuck all good