Original introduction - https://lemmy.world/post/28787892
https://blog.gregtech.eu/posts/lemvotes/
I think this is great tool to identify vote manipulation accounts.
Thanks @cm0002@lemmy.world for making me aware of this.
And thank you @Lena@gregtech.eu for developing it.
Just be aware it lists all downvotes first
Oh wow. Just looked at the votes of a harmless happy post that had lots of upvotes and a few downvotes. With this tool, I was able to figure out who was that one downvoter. Well, then I dug a bit deeper, and found out that this user seems to be a serial downvoter. Every day, there’s a proper barrage of downvotes directed at pretty much anything and everything.
I have very mixed feelings about this discovery. Kinda nice to know all this, but it certainly didn’t make me happier.
It’s a nice tool for admins and mods, but then again they already pretty much had access to this information. I’ve always believed votes are obscured for good reason, and knowing how people vote on your posts and comments is only going to bring about negative emotions.
But if your a community moderator, you can use this tool to identify the bad actors and uninvite them from the party.
You can already see votes directly in the Lemmy UI as a mod
Every small-to-medium sized community trying to build will have a handful of users like this. I managed to discover the serial downvoters on my old lemm.ee comm and when I banned them (about 4 of them?) it had a huge impact. They didn’t all downvote /everything/ but they downvoted a lot of things, and no contribution. And if they got in early, they could sink new threads.
Made a huge difference.
Post up votes: 96k
Post down votes: 171
Comment up votes: 91k
Comment down votes: 162
I’m a pretty easy guy to please.
That is an insane number of upvotes
Damn i should vote more
Total post upvotes: 722
Total post downvotes: 4
Total comment upvotes: 1699
Total comment downvotes: 34
I’ve been percieved
Blaze maybe this should go into the sidebar?
Added at the end of the resources
Gotta hate more
I like it, thanks Lena.
I have somehow used it to stop @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works from consistently downvoting me in their excellent corvids community, by calling them out for downvoting a comment in support of my issue. Before that, they downvoted every comment of mine but have stopped since.
Before that, they downvoted every comment of mine but have stopped since.
Ah, thanks for the reminder.
Haha, no worries. But you did not like getting your toxic ass called out there, did you.
Anyway, it’s kinda nice to see that regular users seem to support my case, downvotes all come from you or cm0002 and their claquers who have nothing to do with the niche topic, just politics.
