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@pollodiabolo, itā€™s interesting that whenever you post, you get boosts from the same set of accounts that downvote every other thread that trends towards the top. And all this happens roughly within a 10 minute stretch! Incidentally, this happens when those other accounts post too! How strange amirite? Wonder if thereā€™s an explanation?

@journalism_died @ishitwhite @muftiboy @kilkennygriffin and way more than I can tag here

EDIT: A few more - @jeremyfurzen @riseupagainstthem @ruse-of-metacarpi @johnson_waters @cazzodicristo @at-fieldu

I suspect a bunch more just to be clear, this is not a comprehensive list. But mentioned accounts are beyond a reasonable doubt either the same person or different people collectively vote manipulating.

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Nice catch. With upvotes and downvotes being public manipulation is much more difficul

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How can you see whoā€™s voting?

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Iā€™m pretty sute the admins can see all the actions on the instance. This reporting is valuable as fuck to spot manipulation

Edit: replied to wrong postā€¦

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Yes @at-fieldu I know itā€™s you too donā€™t feel left out

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Thanks, gonna block all these!

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That wouldnā€™t help you much sadly. This person has at least 10-15 accounts (that I can reasonably suspect based on their boosting history) and they will definitely make even more as people get to know about them. You can expect an increase in shills as kbin becomes more popular too lol.

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Added a few more for ya.

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Itā€™s nice to know some of the posts Iā€™ve seen those accounts downvoted arenā€™t by people whoā€™re really downvoting what the content is about.

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Shill op?

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OP tryna karma farm by boosting the fuck out of their posts when theyā€™re new posts (from any account), so that they make it near the top of the hot section and then they downvote the top few posts so that theirs gets pushed even further, seen them doing it a bunch of times. What a loser lmao.

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ā€œKarma farmingā€ isnā€™t even possible on Lemmy. Thereā€™s literally no total of up- and downvotes displayed anywhere. And having a meme artificially pushed to the top without reason seems to be nonsensical to me.

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I saw similar patterns in politics for news articles about politicians. I assumed it was also a shill op

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