I noticed a lot of down-vote attack on whatever topic about Monero.

If down-vote spam continues, I have more than 800 trash accounts to suppress your unindexing attempts, I could even put posts in trending.

Don’t make me “evil” (by starting botting activities) please, because I’m a winner in this domain.

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Please don’t. I’m considering to purge most votes (with the exception of like the top 100 posts/comments) anyways since they take up an unreasonable amount of space compared to everything else, will probably do a meta post asking for feedback at some point.

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My bad for being angry like that, I dont want to make this server expensive since it’s a very good place.

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Don’t worry, I get it. It’s also not really about it getting more expensive but more so the fact that you can’t easily expand the storage with our current provider and ideally we’d get one more year out of the current one before doing a full migration.

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Creating a bot that spams upvotes on your own instance is easy. And so is blocking all downvotes. But either approach does not really fit this instance, and I’d argue we’d loose one of our major advantages.

If you want to help out and have sufficient skill, I’d highly appreciate some method to detect bots and spammers reliably, so that those accounts could be flagged automatically.

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To suspect spam attacks (doubt is still important):

  • Verify if up/down votes are coming too fastly
  • If the topic isn’t controversial or malicious ect, there’s shouldn’t have vote attacks (expect on user-targeted spam).
  • Bots can come from multiple federations. The only way to notice them is pretty random username without sense & their post/comment activity is dead.
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Cool, an open reason to block your account.

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Feel free to do it. Have a good day 👍

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Downvote harder anon, I need to know your botnet’s weight 😁

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Of course, some people are going to down the topics about freedom and privacy, preserving technologies, because they don’t want freedom and privacy to exist. Our entire instance kind of goes counter to the fediverse culture in general.

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I just want to say to the guy under these attacks that I can be a stronger metrics dictator than himself

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