It’s kinda annoying opening the community and seeing posts made only by a single person bot that posts so much that actually genuine content get suffucated, i think we all know who i talk about (if not, it’s Sanitation), they don’t even link the original post (which i know it’s not obbligatory but cmon…!) I can block them though so it’s only mildly infuriating, though, it makes genuine posters have less comments (and so discussion)
Please, if you are a mod and read this, i ask to take action and if you are not a mod, please feel free to discuss about that with me and everyone else

  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    For me it’s the apparent vote manipulation that is really pissing me off. At 40-50 posts a day it seems like they are a bot but they could also just have no life whatsoever or a really really boring job (or both).

    But I keep seeing them hit the front page over and over with posts that have 40-50 upvotes in an hour and 0 comments. I just don’t see how that’s possible unless they are bot votes.

    • sanitation@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      vote manipulation

      could you clarify to me - what do you mean by vote manipulation? what potential interest or gain could anyone possibly have from lemmy votes?

    • Axolotl@feddit.itOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Usually my posts take at least 2 hours to get more than 30 upvotes so i guess, but also it seems that this community has a lil more users reacting

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        Sure but this post also has 9 separate comment threads in 4 hours in addition to 70+ upvotes from what I can see. I’m not saying that every post is going to look the same but typically a highly upvoted post will have several comments. Given the typical ratio of comments to votes it seems like a weird pattern to me.

        • Axolotl@feddit.itOPEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          You are right, i wonder what’s goin on tbh, though i don’t make many post to have a huge opinion on this and many of my post don’t have that many comments anyway so idk