Submitted 18 hours ago by GB19@lemm.ee to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
i’ve seen quite a few users with one downvote on every single comment for no reason and it makes me wonder if people are disagreeing, stalking users, or just a weird bot account.
Users with one downvote on every recent comment/post is usually some other user raging and being incapable of accepting other people’s opinions.
I think we have a few knuckleheads who think it improves the algorithm and don’t realize that Lemmy doesn’t work that way.
Votes mean less on Lemmy than they did on Reddit. So we can sweat it less what people do with them. Not a big deal.
Pretty sure it’s just users that disagree going and downvoting latest comments. At least for me, there was a MAGAt that didn’t like anti-trump stuff and gave me 1 downvote on everything I posted from that single comment, on backwards in my history for about a week or so.
I thought it was a bot at first, but then I realized it started right after my comment replying to him correcting him on his conspiracy theory stupidity cult nonsense. Everything posted after that comment received no downvotes.
When something like this happens to me I get so happy. Way to absolutely waste your time downvoting you mullet.
The votes are public but inaccessible in UI. You can check them.
I made this tool to check votes on a comment/post
Thanks, this is a really handy tool. Kniwing the information was being withheld ‘just because’ was really rankling me. Now, could you just add a quick feature to read their minds and tell me why they down voted me? ;)
Failed to fetch votes, classic
Nice! Any chance you could have it filter by community? Would be useful as a mod to see who’s downvoting a lot in a comm
Cool, thanks!
Very cool!
How?
I remember a long time ago noticing, while sorting by new, that posts in some communities had downvotes within seconds of being posted, so yes I think there are bots.
It’s happened to me before. It was a real account, too (i can’t remember the username but it was some ML account). I would’ve banned/reported them but i deleted my old account anyway in favor of this one.
Are you seeing users with most of their comments at +/-0, or do you mean you see -1 on all their posts? I’m pretty sure there is a setting to have your own comments not automatically be upvoted by yourself. The users you have seen might just have had that turned on? Resulting in 0 for all their comments unless someone else upvotes it.
Just fyi, some Lemmy clients (e.g. Thunder, probably others) show the upvotes and downvotes distinctly, so you can easily see something like ‘2 1’ which corresponds to ‘upvotes downvotes’. It’s makes it easier to see if there are downvotes versus removed upvotes.
And in Voyager you can enable between seeing them separately or as one number
I know that Reddit does (at least it did back when I still used it) but I’m not sure about Lemmy. I know that Lemmy does have bot accounts for other purposes, so I guess it’s not impossible but I haven’t heard of or seen one here.
There was one a few weeks ago.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It seems off and on, I routinely have one downvote show up on every thing, including totally benign “hahah cute cat” type comments, or comments that are otherwise well received.
It started happening after I criticized Israel for genocide. (Specifically around the time that there was that giant missile barrage right at the start of the Israeli response.)
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
I used the tool and it looks like I have a downvoting stalker that dutifully downvotes my posts and comments. Aww… that’s so cute!
anon6789@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Part of me has wanted this for a long time. The other part of me wants to forget I now know about it.
At least the handful I checked seem to be random, so likely accidental, but I can see this driving me crazy.
Yoga@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Whether I downvoted something is public record but when I googled how to find posts that I liked previously I couldn’t find anything lol